Quotes About Desire

Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.

Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.

Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.

Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.

It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man's course, in order to enjoy the omnipotence and immunity of a god.

No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.

Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast.

I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.

All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.

I was making love to a man, a man I hardly even know. He was kissing the face off me and I was kissing the face off him. And I found it highly satisfactory.

.... "death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!

Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours.

It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. - Dr. Grief

A man of limited desire will always have less or perhaps nothing to worry and sensibly no fear of losing anything or everything in life.

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us.

Each man has his fancy.

Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.

And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?