Quotes About Desire

I'm crazy in love with you, Ryan. It's fireworks and Fourth of July. I want...I want to stay. I want to stay here.

She filled herself entirely with the molten dark.

We are always hard with ourselves when we refuse God something.

You did right, my dear," said Mr. Alden. "People should have what they want on birthdays.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

You attract what you need like a lover

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich.

You have to know what you want to get it.

He was in love with me. Or rather, he yearned to be me. Which is, perhaps, the most instantaneous and absolute characteristic of love.

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Be the flame, not the moth.

I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.

Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite mine, I have always loved it and done all that I could to make myself loved by it. I have also been extravagantly fond of good food and irresistibly drawn by anything which could excite curiosity.

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

Feeling that I was born for the opposite sex, I have always loved it, and I have done everything I could to make myself beloved by it.

A beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.

Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

Amami, per Dio. Ho bisogno d'amore, amore, amore, fuoco, entusiasmo, vita

L'uomo è infelice perchè è incontentabile.

Io non ho bisogno di stima, né di gloria, né di altre cose simili; ma ho bisogno d'amore.

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

Che pensieri soavi, che speranze, che cori, o Silvia mia! Quale allor ci apparia la vita umana e il fato! Quando sovviemmi di cotanta speme, un affetto mi preme acerbo e sconsolato, e tornami a doler di mia sventura. O natura, o natura, perché non rendi poi quel che prometti allor? perché di tanto inganni i figli tuoi?