Quotes About Desire

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

To define a man: he must be a creature who makes me feel that I am a woman.

Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always trying to attract men's attention.

Catherine Deneuve is the man I've always wanted to be.

The center of every man's existence is a dream.

Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.

I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.

I wrote 'The story of O' alone, for Dominique Aury, to interest him, to please him, to occupy him. I wasn't young, nor particularly pretty. I needed something which might interest a man like him.

No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.

All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure.

We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.

The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.

Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?

God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses

Am I a man? To want you so badly that nothing else matters? To see you, and know I would sacrifice honor or family or life itself to lie wi' you, even though ye'd left me?

Men fear to lose as much as they hope to gain.

I think men are afraid to say that they would love to have Michelle Obama in their bed, but they think it.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.