Quotes About Desire

There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.

All men would still really like to own a train set.

Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost.

Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble.

The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.

I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.

Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.

Man loves most that which is his own.

A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.

Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates

Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.

It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.

The covetous man is ever in want.

You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?

I wished to be loved by another. But I desire no man's pity.

Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.

It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.

Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.