Quotes About Desire

Passion is oxygen for the soul.

...like stealing the juice from tomorrow's fruit.

One might as well try to photograph air as to say why one loves.

You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person. And I had fallen in love with Tahiti before ever I had set foot in it.

Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.

Plunging to the very depths of sensual pleasure, he gathered more gravel than pearls.

For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch.

It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with. It is at its best when it is a tantalizing vagueness. It finds its thought and succeeds, or doesn't find it and comes to nothing.

Pressure cranks and presses Life, squeezing out essence of self, aromatic with bittersweet memories, pungent adversities, and the honey-musk of desire — vapors hover over our inkpots, and if we are willing and able to pick up the feather, it becomes our poetry.

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.

Christianity to me is like a hopeless love affair. It is infinitely dear and infinitely unattainable.

Tho' I fancy'd the rose, yet I dreaded the thorn.

My heart says chocolate and wine, but my jeans say "For the love of all that is good, eat a salad!"

Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about.

Amœbas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart, And started Sex. And Sex has thrilled the earth From then to this, Producing grief and mirth And pain and bliss. Through Sex the seedling wakes To cleave the ground; 'Tis really Sex that makes The world go round...

Our hearts crave a dependence our minds deny us.

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.

Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled...

My sexual preference is often.

I think I could fall madly in bed with you.

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.

Lust will curdle like milk if you don't keep using it up.