Quotes About Desire

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.

But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Life begins to happen. My hoppped up husband drops his home disputes, and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.

Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

[On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.

The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.

If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.

Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.

Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.

Tis Love alone can make our Fetters please.

One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.