Quotes About Desire

The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous.

the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.

Sweetheart, all men are animals. Feed us, pet us, and use a firm hand, and we'll worship at your feet.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.

Life is a lemon and I want my money back.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I'd save on shoes alone.

The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.

You can lose yourself in pleasure, 'til your body's going numb, but will it ever be enough.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.