Quotes About Desire

The lightning of your eyes rings the heart. (De tes yeux l'éclair - Fait sonner le cœur.)

The lover steals a kiss, He is under penalty of perpetuity.

The lover steals a kiss. He is under penalty of perpetuity. (L'amoureux vole un baiser. Il encourt perpétuité)

The petals of their lips don't have the thorn of bodies. (Les pétales de leur lèvres N'ont pas l'épine des corps)

The smile of lovers is gondola of their desire. (Des amoureux le sourire - Est gondole de leur désir.)

The water caresses in the glass, like love in the body. (L'eau caresse dans le verre, Comme l'amour dans le corps)

Two lovers watch themselves, it's a shipwreck by fire. (Se regardent deux amoureux : - C'est un naufrage par le feu.)

I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. . . . I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. . . . I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Leave the bottle on the chimleypiece, and don't ask me to take none, but let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged.

She'll wish there was more, and that's the great art o' letter-writin'.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

You have been the last dream of my soul.

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Please, sir, I want some more.

How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart.

And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

But I am thinking like a lover, or like an ass: which I suppose is pretty nearly the same.

Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.

There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.