Quotes About Desire

Seriously, I don't care if feminists hunt me down and burn me at the stake, that man crooked his finger at me, I'd follow him into a bank and rob it at his side.

The gift finds the man attractive who stands with an empty bowl he does not own.

A man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection.

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a lot with our founding fathers' principles of freedom.

Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved.

I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission?

Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

Can a man be poor if he is free from want, if he does not covet the belongings of others, if he is rich in the possession of God? Rather, he is poor who possesses much but still craves for more.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

Men are ruled by toys.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

When a man loves a woman, he'll spend his very last dime tryin' to hold on to what he needs.

There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.