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Quotes About Desire

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.
~ David Levithan
I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do the job for me.
~ David Sedaris
A lot of people don't know what they want, you know, or they're just kind of vague about it.
~ David Sedaris
What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.
~ Dawn French
Are you smelling me?" After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have. "Don't tempt me," he murmured.
~ Deborah Harkness
Show me the story. I just want to tell a story that pulls me forward.
~ Debra Winger
Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.
~ Deepak Chopra
There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.
~ Demi Moore
How am I supposed to let you go, that's all I'm asking. I want to hold you again, smell you, and, yes too, I just want you to fade. To please, please fade.
~ Dennis Lehane
O love, please give me a passionate red recycling bin. I will put my desire in it. I don't ever want to throw love away.
~ Derrick Williams
Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you?
~ Diana Gabaldon
I am absolutely intrigued by life, and I really want to hold onto it.
~ Diane Keaton
Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that's not outrageous.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.
~ Dirk Benedict
I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.
~ Dolly Parton
I'll oil wells love you. I'll oil wells care. I'll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear.
~ Dolly Parton
Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.
~ Dolly Parton
Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.
~ Don DeLillo
Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.
~ Don DeLillo
About the time we get old enough to be as wicked as we want to be, we don't want to be so very wicked after all.
~ Don Herold
To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."
~ Donal Logue
The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
Everybody wants to be more wanted, until they are.
~ Dov Davidoff