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Quotes About Desire

Two-hundred forty horsepower isn't enough to move me anymore. Enough to move my body, yes, but not my soul.
~ S.A. Sachs
The path to obesity is so tasty.
~ John Hubbard, 2016
The belly rules the mind.
~ Spanish proverb
If hunger is not the problem, food is not the answer.
~ Author Unknown
I missed Darlene so much that it felt like a fever.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
As we all crave something to protect, so we long to feel ourselves protected. We are all infants before the Infinite...
~ T.W. Higginson
I hated him with a passion so deep, sometimes it felt like love.
~ Terri Guillemets
The truth is, that the craving for exercise is a part of healthy human nature.
~ E. Warre, 1884
The desire of activity is designed by nature to promote our physical well-being. Physical activity is the law of physical health.
~ Edward Brooks, 1882
Where love begins, there dread thy first desire; A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.
~ Robert Herrick
The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.
~ John Gay
A sow prefers bran to roses.
~ French proverb
Fruit only angers my need for chocolate.
~ Jason Love
Garfield: My inner beast desires a snack! Jon: How about a nice, frothy fruit smoothie? Garfield: Inner beasts don't do frothy and fruity.
~ Jim Davis, Garfield, 2006
Dreams are as powerful as swords.
~ Terri Guillemets
A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
~ Raymond Chandler
And beauty draws us with a single hair...
~ Alexander Pope
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
~ Samuel Johnson, 1759
Our heart is like an unfinished puzzle — that is why we search for the perfect one to complete it.
~ Author Unknown
Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye.
~ Irish proverb
Soul sells life for the price of heartache.
~ Terri Guillemets
Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart!
~ Lord Byron
You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.
~ Terri Guillemets
...and God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses...
~ R B. Cunninghame Graham, 1917