Quotes About Desire

The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.

Flies? Flies? Poor puny things. Who wants to eat flies?

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

I can show you who's the man Let me show you with my hands I just want you close to me I'll get you wet Just wait and see

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.

To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want.

We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

Man wants little, nor that little long.

Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.

When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it?

I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once said about me, 'Elaine has to have money.'

It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.

I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.

Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.

I'm not greedy. I just want one person. The world is so big and there are so many people. But I only want one.

No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn't.

Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you won't believe it.

Because I-I'm someone who wants to kiss you. Be with you." Eli says as if it is obvious, as if I know what is written on his heart.

This is the real unwritten rule: You don't want what you know you shouldn't. And I haven't just broken that rule. I have wrecked it, smashed it, and still... And still I want.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

Oh, gosh, Olive. I'm so embarrassed." "No need to be," Olive tells her. "We all want to kill someone at some point." (179)