Quotes About Desire

Odi et amo; quare fortasse requiris, nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. (my translation: I hate and I love, you ask why I do this, I do not know, but I feel and I am tormented)

Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus, rumoresque senum severiorum omnes unius aestimemus assis! soles occidere et redire possunt; nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda. da mi basia mille, deinde centum, dein mille altera, dein secunda centum, deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum; dein, cum milia multa fecerimus, conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus, aut ne quis malus invidere possit cum tantum sciat esse basiorum.

I hate and I love. Why do I do this, you may ask? I do not know, but I feel it, and I am tortured.

What a woman tells her lover in desire should be written out on air & running water.

I hate & love. And if you should ask how I do both, I couldn't say; but I feel it , and it shivers me.

Nothing is left of me Each time I see her

Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, in vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua ((What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water)

I think I wished for you all of my life.

I can only assume that there's only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that's not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything.

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn't care about so that I couldn't lose anything I really loved ever again.

Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.

I missed her, the idea of her.

She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time while she waited for something else. She was tired of just existing; she wanted to live.

you don't marry someone you can live with, you marry the person you cannot live without

Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.

I used to think that it was better to have too much than too little, but now I think if the too much was never supposed to be yours, you should just take what is yours and give the rest back.

nobody understood that no amount of makeup, fresh air or shopping was going to fill the hole in her heart.

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.

But even in her laughter there was something missing. She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time while she waited for something else. She was tired of just existing; she wanted to live.

Why couldn't she, at least just this once, suddenly find magical powers?

Today I love you more than ever; tomorrow I will love you even more. I need you more than ever, I want you more than ever.

She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time till she waited for something else. She was tired of just existing; she wanted to live.

he was like the drug she knew she shouldn't take,but the drug that kept coming back to feed her addiction

that's the problem with paradise—nothing attracts a serpent quite like it.