Quotes About Desire

He's going to do her hard," one of them said. They were talking about Lucius, who was to be my new master. My reaction? Mental eye-roll and gag. The fact that Lucius had already "done" me pretty damn hard didn't factor into the picture.

Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

Apparently, dancing for him and throwing herself at him weren't enough. Apparently, she had to nearly commit murder to arouse him enough to attack her.

There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.

Lutheran spirituality begins with the insight that all human effort to reach God is futile. The will, to use Luther's term, is in bondage—not only can we not fulfill the moral law perfectly, on the deepest level, we do not want to.

A lot of what drives me and others working in this space is the knowledge that, whatever your constraints, we can always do better, and the desire to help people on their journey.

In continuous, Unending suffering, They are firmly rooted in the five desires Like an ox chasing its own tail. Blinded by greed and desire, They are blind and can see nothing. Seeking neither the Buddha With his great power Nor the Dharma, Which can bring an end to suffering. With deeply entrenched wrong views, They try to use suffering to get rid of suffering.

Men want success and sex. Women want everything.

You actually don't need much. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't have it all.

Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?

hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . . . . Wanting life to be different from what it is. That's also called leaving without leaving. Dying before you die. It's as if there is a part of you that so rails against being shattered by love that you shatter yourself first. (p. 44)

Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it. (p. 163)

Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even with aching joints, it's not about food. Even with arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure. It's about your desire to flatten your life. It's about the fact that you've given up without saying so. It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way -- and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it. (p. 53)

I live between fearing doom and wishing for it.

Then he pulled back and looked at her shirt again. "Is this really true?" She nodded. "Every word of it." "Okay, then. I say you won't." "Won't do what?" He bent his head to whisper into her hair, his breath hot against her ear. " Before lunch, you won't go to bed with me." Elle reached around behind her and turned off the burner on the stove.

Do not fear to be your true self, for everything you want, wants you.

And she didn't want great secrets of necromancy, or any other sort of magic. She just wanted—had always wanted—a good book to read. Being chased by hellhounds and blowing things up were comparatively unimportant parts of the job.

She just wanted - had always wanted - a good book to read. Being chased by hellhounds and blowing things up were comparatively unimportant parts of the job. Getting the books - now, that was what *really* mattered to her.

She just wanted—had always wanted—a good book to read.

People do keep on talking about wanting a war so that their side will win. But ultimately all they really want is for their side to be a bit better off. Nobody wishes for their side to triumph completely.

My sole desire is to explain and to enlighten. And, Irene hoped, to entertain. She turned the page.

The idea of a hot bath hung in the future like the promise of Christmas or a new book in a favourite series.

the question i am asked daily by the world... was that all you wanted?