logo

Quotes About Desire

Every man's the same, he wants the sunshine in his name.
~ Robert Palmer
A man does not entreat for love. It is the irresistible impulse towards each other of two souls, a union in which there is neither conscious giving nor receiving.
~ Rosa Campbell Praed
There is not a man in America who has not had a secret ambition to boot an infant.
~ W. C. Fields
Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.
~ Warren Farrell
Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish her election, Sh'ath sealed thee for herself.
~ William Shakespeare
Do all men kill the things they do not love?
~ William Shakespeare
There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
~ Yukio Mishima
A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.
~ Helen Rowland
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.
~ Horace Mann
I think that women don't bother disguising their desire and pleasure in dressing up, and that men, for whatever reason, tend to be a little more embarrassed.
~ Hugh Dancy
There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. -(from "The Bicentennial Man) story)
~ Isaac Asimov
I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.
~ Jake Gyllenhaal
Desire, and the ways in which men perform their masculinity and feel as if they can take up space and say anything about your body, have always been a dangerous space for me.
~ Janet Mock
Men and women fall in love abandoning reality in favour of the dream
~ Jeremy Griffith
A big part of dating for men is the huntthe chase.
~ Jesse Palmer
Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.
~ Johann Gottfried Seume
O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
~ John Gay
Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.
~ John Webster
I just... want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.
~ Jojo Moyes
I also like men who have hands with big masculine veins that you can squish and move.
~ Jolene Blalock
The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
~ Joseph Butler
Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.
~ Karl Kraus