Quotes About Desire

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

O, how I wish I had never seen him! Loving is misery for women always.

you dear, sweet, tantalizing phantom--hardly flesh at all; so that when I put my arms round you I almost expect them to pass through you as through air!

It was a fatal omission of Boldwood's that he had never once told her she was beautiful.

My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)

Three Leahs to get to One Rachel.

you temptress,Tess; you dear damned witch of Babylon- I could not resist you as soon as I met you again.

It was quite impossible, he found, to ask to be delivered from temptation when your heart's desire was to be tempted unto seventy times seven.

But it was also obvious that man could not live by work alone; that the particular man Jude, at any rate, wanted something to love.

If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained.

Ah, if I could only make your dear heart ache one little minute of each day as mine does every day and all day long, it might lead you to show pity to your poor lonely one....

Two ardent hearts against one poor little conscience

Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes. Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women… O ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus?—Esdras.

Because 'tis always mournful not to be wanted, even if at the same time 'tis convenient.

But the bitter thing is, that when I was rich I didn't need what I could have, and now I be poor I can't have what I need!

Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.

I shall do one thing in this life – one thing certain – that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.

there was the record of a pulsing life which had learnt too well, for its years, of the dust and ashes of things, of the cruelty of lust and the fragility of love

He was conscious of a cold and sickly thrill throughout him; and all he reasoned was this, that the young creature whose graces had intoxicated him into making the most imprudent decision of his life, was less an angel than a women.

Every desired renewal of an existence is debased by being half alloy.

The daylight has nothing to show me, since you are not here, and I don't like to see the rooks and starlings in the fields, because I grieve and grieve to miss you who used to see them with me. I long for only one thing in heaven or earth or under the earth, to meet you my own dear! Come to me - come to me, and save me from what threatens me! - Your faithful heartbroken

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession; with totally differing aims the method is the same on both sides. But the understood incentive on the woman's part was wanting here. Besides, Bathsheba's position as absolute mistress of a farm and house was a novel one, and the novelty had not yet begun to wear off.

Her one desire, so long resisted, to make herself his, to call him her lord, her own—then

Eustacia, I don't know where to look: my thoughts go through me like swords.