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Quotes About Desire

Coco stared for a moment in frustration at the only thing that had blocked a dream life as a glamorous supermodel.
~ James Patterson
How could I desire him like this when I was so full of sorrow? And would he desire me enough to help take me away from here, even for a few stolen moments?
~ James Patterson
By Friday, I could tell something was missing. Just breaking the rules by itself wasn't going to cut it. I needed something more. I needed a boost in my game.
~ James Patterson
He wanted an heir, a tiny piece of immortality.
~ James Patterson
Mr. Randolph Davies. Though he had to be in his mid-seventies, the paunchy and white-bearded Davies looked Celia up and down as lustily as a college boy.
~ James Patterson
and almost overdosed on icy-cold cans of soda.
~ James Patterson
She turned her head and looked at her gorgeous and in every way fantastic lover.
~ James Patterson
want the world to know how I felt about her. But now
~ James Patterson
Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.
~ Azar Nafisi
As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
~ Kate Braverman
Trump's campaign slogan resonates strongly with a large population of Americans. 'Make America Great Again' portrays a nostalgia for what America once was, and a longing desire to return to that time. Millennials unfortunately don't know first-hand that time which Trump is talking about.
~ Dana Perino
Love is not always bed of roses. When its unfulfilled, it causes immense pain and anger.
~ Ankit Tiwari
It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
~ Benjamin E. Mays
I've produced, but as for directing, that's a dream that'll have to go unfulfilled.
~ Leslie Nielsen
I finished 'Beautiful Creature,' and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some of the songs I left off the album weren't intense enough to be what I wanted. They weren't hard enough.
~ Juliana Hatfield
She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it.
~ Georgette Heyer
Ironically, the pursuit of happiness can lead us into the eternal trap of chasing unhappiness.
~ Justin Kan
For me, creation can only come out of a certain kind of unhappiness. They say in Japan, this thing like the hungry spirit - the hungry mind - is what gets you going forward.
~ Rei Kawakubo
Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that.
~ James Gray
I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
~ Ingrid Bergman
Every player wants to play. That's pretty normal. Every player is unhappy when he's on the bench. That's pretty normal, too. But it's football: only 11 players can start, and the coach has his game plan for each game.
~ Xherdan Shaqiri
As her life became more unhappy, acting attracted Marie-Antoinette because it fulfilled unmet emotional needs. By all accounts, she was quite good in her little private theatricals. But her desire to be a heroine, both literally and figuratively, was shocking to the French.
~ Amanda Foreman