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Quotes About Desire

Your love is all that I was waiting for and now that I feel it ...oh man...what I thought was not even quarter of what I thought it really was.
~ Gary Lawyer
Nicolai, the Dark Seducer as his people called him, had been in bed, but not alone. He was never alone. He was a man known for the violence of his temper as well as the deliciousness of his touch
~ Gena Showalter
Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?
~ George Bernard Shaw
Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
~ George Chapman
Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.
~ George Crabbe
A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.
~ George Eliot
Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.
~ George Eliot
In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.
~ George Herbert
No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there.]
~ George Herbert
A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself.
~ George MacDonald
It's so easy to find someone who would walk around me like a shadow and do everything for me and never be tempted by other men, so obviously I'm not attracted by that type.
~ George Michael
The more men you've had, the more I love you.
~ George Orwell
Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.
~ Gore Vidal
Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.
~ Graydon Carter
The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.
~ Guy Finley
Cultivate night-blooming jasmine near your bedroom window, and dream of men you've always longed for.
~ Gwen Davis
They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.
~ H. G. Wells
His mouth was hot and hungry, and he kissed the way no man should kiss and still be allowed to run free.
~ Linda Howard
The audience falls in love with a leading man because he'll never belong to any of them.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Then he raised her enough to whisper in her ear, and while his voice was tender, his words were savage. "You're my woman, and no man or God or ghost will ever take you from me.
~ Lisa Kleypas
She was a beautiful woman, if not a happy one, and attracting a man was never a problem. Keeping one, however, was a different matter.
~ Lisa Kleypas
But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.
~ Lord Byron