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Quotes About Desire

"We want in so many different ways to be," he began again. "This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man he will never on his heap of mud keep still. He want to be so, and again he want to be so…" He moved his hand up, then down… "He wants to be a saint, and he wants to be a devil..."
~ Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, 1899
Inside me there's a thin person struggling to get out, but she can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.
~ Author Unknown
Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake has a lot for a lot of people, it does for me…
~ Audrey Hepburn, 1971
The cat loves fish, but she's loath to wet her feet.
~ Proverb
She clawed her way into my heart and wouldn't let go.
~ Terri Guillemets
The house of the childless is empty; and so is the heart of him that hath no wife.
~ Hitopadesa
...a romantic attachment for chocolate-creams...
~ Grant Allen
Chocolate doesn't ask silly questions. Chocolate understands.
~ Author Unknown
Man cannot live on chocolate alone but woman sure can.
~ Author Unknown
I want someone to look at me the same way I look at chocolate.
~ Internet meme
I like her bitter as I can git 'er, along with a piece of pie.
~ Jim Hovendick
An American will go to hell for a bag of coffee.
~ American Proverb
Everybody should believe in something. I believe I'll have another coffee.
~ Author Unknown
Chocolate, men, coffee — some things are better rich.
~ Author Unknown
I like my coffee like my women — hot, strong, steamy.
~ Author Unknown
I don't understand decaf, it's like sex without the sex.
~ A.C. Van Cherub, 2008
He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.
~ Author Unknown
Let's live with that small pittance that we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.
~ Robert Herrick
Why can't we move the clocks ahead to Friday afternoon around 4:00?
~ Interne meme
Buy what thou hast no Need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.
~ Benjamin Franklin
All people with healthy physical appetites have a sweet tooth somewhere in their heads.
~ Macmillan's Magazine, 1887
I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert.
~ Jason Love
You are my favorite excuse to whip cream.
~ @AnonymousVoyeur, tweet, 2010
If hunger is not the problem, then eating is not the solution.
~ Author Unknown