Quotes About Desire

Sara: You have no scruples about taking a woman from the man you believe she loves? Nick: I'd take you from my own brother. I don't give a damn how I get you, so long as I do.

He felt like weeping at the wrenching pleasure he derived from studying the fall of her hair

The sound of his yearning had no melodic line.

No one so beautiful could ever conceive of leaving the daylight world to which she had a natural claim in order to be smothered by the midnight secrecy of his illicit caress. Oh

For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie.

Go after happiness like it is the only thing you can take with you when you die.

Your mouth is the best thing that ever happened to my mouth. -Zane Cutter

Jake became excruciatingly aware of her, there, right behind him. The small grunts and groans as she placed each foot carefully on the slick ground reverberated in his gut. He wanted to turn around and tell her to shut the hell up. She sounded as though she was having sex. Good sex.

Physical pleasure is awakening in me the desire for more pleasure in general.

animal might be lonely, or wanted a scratch on his

Why should any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It's like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. It's like sitting in a racing car but not driving it.

Love? I need a lot of love. Of course you do. Everyone does. It's funny that we never say it. It's OK to scream, 'I'm starving' in public if you are hungry; it's OK to make a fuss and say, 'I'm so sleepy', if you are tired; but somehow we cannot say, 'I need some more love.' Why can't we say it? It's just as basic a need.

When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk.

But the eye is very greedy and will steal a look at something its owner has no wish to see.

new Porsche, some cash, and no doubt a condo by the sea had been her payment. 

There's nothing wrong with dreaming about accomplishing great things, as long as that desire isn't focused on one's own glory.

Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.

Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.

Or perhaps it is just that desire lies at the heart of human existence. When we turn away from one desire, we must find another to cleave to with all our strength --or else we die.

I guess there's a lot we hope for that never happens.

EPITAPH She did to live she lived to die she died inside him where she lived so long dying to get out -

Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest." —PSALM 55:6

Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?

2. Atoms would like to be free, too, but they're not so pushy about it.