Quotes About Desire

But God in his infinite wisdome had apparently thought it was an entertaining idea for us to always be wanting to get up in one another.

Ask her what she craved and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.

Desire abides. It is all people have that stands proof against time. Everything else rots.

The flame of urgent coupling burned hottest against the woman, no matter how romantic and high and heartsick the anguish of the man might be pitched in retrospect.

Those that wish to be clean, clean they will be; and those that wish to be foul, foul they will be. Remember.

Oh, don't hurt me!" cried Tom. "I only want to look at you; you are so handsome.

He longed to marry Rose Salterne, with a wild selfish fury; but only that he might be able to claim her as his own property, and keep all others from her. Of her as a co-equal and ennobling helpmate; as one in whose honor, glory, growth of heart and soul, his own were inextricably wrapt up, he had never dreamed. Marriage would prevent God from being angry with that, with which otherwise He might be angry; and therefore the sanction of the Church was the more probable and safe course.

Why should we long for the next world, before we are fit even for this one?

Each man kills the thing he loves. The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword.

same mistake. Love the woman you marry, be crazy to fuck her all night, every night until death does you part

Åži uneori rugat-am un vin de nobil soi O zi m?car s?-mi sting? durerilor noianul, Dar vinul face ochiul mai clar, mai fin timpanul; Am c?utat uitarea în dragoste apoi: Ea îns?-i pentru mine un pat de spini ÅŸi bârfe, În care-mi sorb paharul nes??ioase târfe!

Ama a Dios con todo tu corazón... y luego haz lo que quieras».

Envy has empty hands and wants them full. Jealousy has full hands and never wants them empty. Envy languishes in self-pity because it doesn't have what others have. Jealousy rants in paranoia because it fears losing what it feels unworthy to own.

The desire of Joseph's heart was to see his father and to get all of his family to move to Egypt and to live near him so he could provide for them without reservation and without limitation.

As Os Guinness writes, To be sure, calling is not what it is commonly thought to be. It has to be dug out from under the rubble of ignorance and confusion. And, uncomfortably, it often flies in the face of our human inclinations. But nothing short of God's call can ground and fulfill the truest human desire for purpose.3

I let the happy times slip through my fingers and gripped on to the sad times as if they were my heart's desire

A mother's love— Fuck love, Amber snarls, she wants power.

Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.

the ads made me feel bilious and love-stricken, invaded and debauched by a coldly mechanical lust for whatever fetish the desire machines were pushing at their victims at any given instant.

Nobody taught me how to say no when a beautiful naked woman begs me to take my clothes off.

I feel ill with emotional indigestion: I don't think I've ever felt for Mo the kind of raw, priapic lust I feel for Ramona, but Ramona is a poisonous bloom—off-limits if I value my life.

I passed through this stage years ago on Venus, where I was so unfashionable that eventually I almost convinced myself I no longer cared that nobody wanted me; but recent events have reawakened my need for intimacy.

I can't get out of here soon enough, he thinks, and glances at his smartwatch—a birthday present from his wife—only to see that it has crashed and frozen on reboot, mocking him with an image of the apple from the tree of knowledge, one bite down.

The rich smell of life uneaten.