Quotes About Desire

I hate the calendar, which is both a circle and a straight line, a wheel and an arrow, grinding each anniversary, each day a reminder of my failures, my lost plans, unfulfilled objectives and wishes, the days aren't taken off the calendar, subtracted one by one, but added, another small stone accumulated, another foot moved ahead, the arrow flying forward instead of falling back to earth, when all I want is a complete stop.

Well, I want to do The Music Man. I think it's an amazing opportunity, but I think that they are probably looking at major movie stars right now, and I don't blame them.

She does not care what you think. She only cares what you think as far it helps her get what she wants from you

So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.

And to live only once– What if that's not enough?

Love is what I sought. "Hunger," they called it.

Self-Portrait at Twenty" I stood inside myself like a dead tree or a tower. I pulled the rope of braided hair and high above me a bell of leaves tolled. Because my hand stabbed its brother, I said: Make it stone. Because my tongue spoke harshly, I said: Make it dust. And yet it was not death, but her body in its green dress I longed for. That's why I stood for days in the field until the grass turned black and the rain came.

Banishing the love song, people discovered what else there was to sing about.

Some days I think this one place isn't enough. That's when nothing is enough, when I want to live multiple lives and be allowed to love without limits. Those days, like today, I walk with a purpose but no destinations. Only then do I see, at least momentarily, that everything is here. — Gretel Ehrlich, Islands, the Universe, Home (Penguin, 1992)

A writer makes a pact with loneliness. It is her, or his, beach on which waves of desire, wild mind, speculation break. In my work, in my life, I am always moving toward and away from aloneness. To write is to refuse to cover up the rawness of being alive, of facing death.

may you live as long as you want to and want to as long as you live.

There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit–retire!

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

I think women are sexy when they got some clothes on. And if later they take them off then you've triumphed. Somebody once said it's what you dont see you're interested in, and this is true.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo.

Anything that can't be done in bed isn't worth doing at all.

Ela está tão apaixonada por mim que não quer saber de mais nada. É por isso que está apaixonada por mim.

Love goes out the door when money comes innuendo.

I know that I am honest and sincere in my desire to do well; but the question is whether I know enough to accomplish what I desire.

Imagine willpower as a closed fist and longing as an open hand. Try closing your fist. How long do you think you can hold that pose? A closed fist requires a lot of attention and energy, and so does willpower. Longing is effortless; it's just there, like an open hand.

The masses are not happy enough to want more out of life and not unhappy enough to reject their way of living or want a better life.

From things which have been obtained after having been long desired men almost never derive the pleasure and delight which they had anticipated.

As long as they have the wish to kill, they will not lose the lust to procreate.