Quotes About Desire

I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.

He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison.

or is it that man contains within himself the seeds of evil? That even if he is placed in a paradise perfectly formed for him he will poison it, slowly, with his own jealousies and desires?

My downfall, inevitably, was triggered by food.

That is the delusion of which I speak! You wish the joys of true love upon every milkmaid and stable boy in your land, and yet you consign yourself and another to lives of pure misery that you might possess a well-proportioned ballroom.

Better I would have been at pulling parsnips out of my nose than charming any man, even if I so desired it, even if I quadrupled my studies in her unique curriculum.

Our unconscious needs are strong—so strong that they can overwhelm us. We all desperately want to be loved.

These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.

dont wish upon a star reach for one

Reason tried to whisper a warning, but Libido drowned him out.

Wow," she said when he finally released her. Breathing hard, Dillon propped his forehead against hers. I see your 'wow' and raise you a 'hot damn.' But just to be absolutely certain we aren't overreacting, maybe we should put it to the test one more time." Pele's Tears

I want you to be crazy about me," I'd said, and he said, "You want that. I know. But you also want space to think and work. Freedom. You want to rest sometimes. You'd hate me if I tried to contain you." He'd sighed, pressed his lips into a thin line. "I love you, but you want impossible things, Ash," he said, finally, and it was true. It still is. I want impossible things.

I love you, but you want impossible things, Ash," he said, finally, and it was true. It still is. I want impossible things.

I guess I really just wanted to pick out the rocks. Because now that I have them? I don't actually want them that much." I felt the exact same way. Sometimes I think that's kind of what stuff is like. You want it until you have it, and then it's like the light inside it goes out.

Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things.

I try to think of a way to get there without going past it. There are lots of ways, but they all have me walking a little farther. And that's stupid, I decide. What am I, a little kid? I can stand to see something it hurts to want. I can see it and then just keep walking. It happens to lots of people everyday. We all survive.

I think you can scare somebody out of doing something, but not out of feeling like they want to.

When I dreamed about the time you would actually sleep with me, I thought there'd be some sleeping involved.

sex is what you make it, and we have always made do. To assume sex must take place within touching distance seems, to me, limited thinking.

we can't even say what it is we're missing. It's like you can feel the hole, but you don't know what's supposed to fill it, because it's something you've never seen. You don't want it to be every man for himself, but it sort of is. And there's not much you can do about it. I don't mean to talk in riddles.

They just want to kill the pain. Everybody just wants to kill the pain.

Well, you're seeing what ain't there." Or what you wanted for yourself and never got. What we don't get, we see everywhere we look. What we won't let ourselves do, be, we refuse to tolerate in any other living soul. Arlene was beginning to notice this.

This idea opened a door to my seeing that the rigors and trials of a task that big are not brick walls designed to keep me out. They're just pop quizzes to determine how badly I want in.

Like I told you before, it gets to be an addiction. You want to be OK right now, so you trade that for having a good life in the long run. It's a bad trade, but people do it all the time. That's all addiction really is. It's trading away the future so you can feel OK right now.