Quotes About Desire

It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since he must know that he cannot obtain anything without it.

Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow.

It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.

Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.

I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?

All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.

A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.

The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more.

The boy that you loved is the man that you fear.

A man needs enough...no less, no more.

In spring a young mans fancy turns to a fancy young man.

No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

Do you think a man is the only creature with whom one may fall in love?

Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him.

No other man will have you

I cannot allow another man to take what I already consider mine.

Here we are, a man and a woman, both wanting the same things, and yet, you aren't attracted to me.

For a hungry man, green peas are more shiny than gleaming pearls.

In every height, man feels himself in the low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied!

They say "Wine is Satan's falcon,"; apparently he uses it in hunting men!

To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.

Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with.

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.