Quotes About Desire

I have always claimed America didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

And closely akin [...] was the call still sounding in the depths of the forest. It filled him with a great unrest and strange desires. It caused him to feel a vague, sweet gladness, and he was aware of wild yearnings and stirrings for he knew not what.

Lanciò un'occhiata all'amico che leggeva la lettera e vide i libri sul tavolo. Nei suoi occhi apparvero nostalgia e avidità, come l'avidità appare negli occhi dell'affamato alla vista del cibo.

The desire to do it was strong, but stronger still was the imperative command of his nature not to do it. In spite of himself he was still faithful to Love. The old days of license and easy living were gone. He could not bring them back, nor could he go back to them. He was changed---how changed he had not realized until now.

The great majority of habitual drinkers are born not only without desire for alcohol, but with actual repugnance toward it. Not the first, nor the twentieth, nor the hundredth drink, succeeded in giving them the liking. But they learned, just as men learn to smoke; though it is far easier to learn to smoke than to learn to drink. They learned because alcohol was so accessible.

But, - and there it is, - we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be dead. It is because of this life that is in you that you dream of your immortality. The life that is in you is alive and wants to go on being alive forever. Bah! An eternity of piggishness!

Why this longing for Life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to toil hard, and to suffer sore, till Old Age creeps heavily upon us and we throw down our hands on the cold ashes of dead fires. It is hard to live.

But love that was feverish and burning, that was adoration, that was madness, it had taken John Thornton to arouse.

Aveva amato la poesia perché gli interessava la bellezza; ma da quando l'aveva incontrata gli si erano spalancate le porte sui territori sconfinati della poesia d'amore.

Ho più fame di te che di cibo

Jis niekada taip nemyl?jo savo k?no kaip dabar, kai jam išlikti buvo taip maža vilties.

Sus pies son hermosos, sus ojos radiantes, sus brazos y sus pechos son el paraìso, su encanto supera todas las maravillas que jamàs hayan deslumbrado al hombre; y, del mismo modo que el imàn arrastra inevitablemente al metal, la mujer arrastra inevitablemente a los hombres.

She waited, she knew not for what, panting, with dry, burning lips, a leaping pulse, and a fever of expectancy in all her blood.

we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move.

The hunger pangs were sharp.  They gnawed and gnawed until he could not keep his mind steady on the course he must pursue to gain the land of little sticks. 

of course she promptly loved him, or thought she did, which amounts to the same thing.

Il avait ignoré que l'amour lui était nécessaire et l'ignorait encore. Mais il en voyait les manifestations qui l'émouvaient profondément.

voraciously.

Those who seek to be rich fall into temptation and the snares of the Devil.

How I hate you, he said softly. If hate were stone I could build a tower into the clouds.

I hate you with the hate that I give to all the world; I love you with a feeling nothing else arouses.

T'sais mounted her horse and set out for Earth, seeking love and beauty.

Madouc considered. 'I would like a wand to do transformations, a cap of invisibility, swift slippers to walk the air, a purse of boundless wealth, a talisman to compel the love of all, a mirror—' 'Stop!' cried Twisk. 'Your needs are excessive!

Novelties became necessities, and each caravan of cargo stimulated a craving for more. The more he conquered, the more he had to conquer.