Quotes About Desire

I'll be into anything you want after breakfast and a coffee and serious medication, okay?

I want to skip this part. I want to pull on the arm of my slot machine and let the rolls flip over until they show a green tree in the summertime, and me away from that house, walking tall under a blue sky.

When I grew a little older, and had suitors, I demanded from them rings from the bottom of the sea, or a sword from the depths of the desert, or a golden bough and a thick golden fleece, too, before I allowed even one kiss.

He rested his hand on mine, once or twice. He kissed my brow, one time, in the late evening when the stars were full as moons, and I had brought him both a jug of wine and a treatise on transfiguration he had been asking for all over town, and I felt it on my head like a pain. But love is like that, it is hard and awful and, usually, it is not contagious.

but she does not know whom she wishes to catch, only that she wishes to catch someone, anyone, to be anchored, to be connected, to not be abandoned.

For all that they love to make kings, John's folk seem to have little interest in the actual business of ruling anything. They like to become, they do not like to be.

Ivan said, If only we could eat violin music.

Sell your soul and half your shoes for a glass of gin.

Draw the world the way you want it. Draw it and it will be.

You can turn around in the dark, with the man who wants your heart looming so big, so big over you, and you can give it to him, so bright and red and pure that it destroys him. Getting what you want has that effect, more often than you think. But it's a dangerous thing, the intimate exchange of hearts in the shadows, and sometimes the man in the dark walks off with everything anyway.

Dress you? I'd rather undress you. We don't belong together. But you belong to me. I want you not as you might be. I want you as you are.

If having an imagination means imagining all the things you don't have - imagining, in fact, the impossibility of your own happiness - is an imagination a good thing?

Empiricism and philosophy itself are both sensuous and sensual. The desire to know is desire.

Ma come facevi ad avere un cuore quando tutti volevano averne un pezzo? E ci riuscivano, finché non te ne restava più niente. Ecco cosa intendeva. Tutti le sbranavano il cuore, come lupi. - Fin

Your desire for me was like a physiological weakness, a sort of epilepsy. I needed to see you in its grip more than I needed to eat.

they were missing each other so much that all topics seemed to lead back to their separation and loss.

I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience.

If you were a wheel I'd follow your highway. If you were a raindrop I wish you'd fall my way. If you were a gypsy I'd give a fortune to tell That whenever I'm with you I see HEAVEN, not hell…

What is it you really want?" Emily said. "Because if what you want is the big career, then you need to stick with that—and stop torturing the person who can't or won't follow. I speak from some experience on that.

My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were the best of women,--or stop loving you, no matter what you do.

Id Faciam What I hate I love. Ask the crucified hand that holds the nail that now is driven into itself, why.

I hate and I love. Why I do this, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it happening and I am tortured.

I hate and I love. Wherefore do I so, peradventure thou askest. I know not, but I feel it to be thus and I suffer.

?d? et am?. Qu?r? id faciam fortasse requ?ris. Nesci?, sed fier? senti? et excrucior.