Quotes About Desire

I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.

It would not be better if men got what they wanted.

Love's all in all to women.

I do like to belong to a man.

Just as a man does not desire food until he is hungry, so does he not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ.

In all of my movies I've tried to address the need for man - not just Cubans - to have a dream and to fight for that dream, even when he doesn't achieve it. It's a form of happiness.

I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

How is the anxious soul of man befool'd in his desire, That thinks an hectic fever may be cool'd in flames of fire?

The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire.

For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real ills, Men swallow down to purchase one false good!

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.

A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The Tantric Buddhist seeks annihilation of the ego.

Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence.

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.

Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".

What do you want?" Sophronia was moved to exasperation. "Me? Stockings and breeches to come back in fashion. I do miss seeing a man's calves.