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Quotes About Desire

The great question which I have not been able to answer despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul is "what does a woman want"?
~ Sigmund Freud
In her first passion woman loves her lover In all the others all she loves is love.
~ Lord Byron
When a woman wants your attention, she uses her smile. When she wants your wallet, she uses her charm. When she wants your heart, she uses her touch. When she wants your soul, she uses her kiss.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Even the memory of cradling her in my arms is pure euphoria. And all that I ask out of life is that it be constant and unending euphoria.
~ Roman Payne
She wants to drive me crazy so that I'll want her even more. She's teasing me. That's what women do. You ever heard of a man doing this? Course not.
~ Jack Dancer, Detour Paris
He didn't know why, but seeing her made him feel like a man. She was something out of a dream - a dream in which he was not a spoiled young prince, but a king.
~ Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.
~ Tiffany Madison
What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security, ' and, 'What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want. We've been really indoctrinated with this culture of permission. But that time has passed.
~ Ava DuVernay
Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn't let go until I had to come up for air.
~ Priya Ardis
Unfortunately, he still hadn't asked for my number, or a date, or my hand in marriage, and my drink was getting low.
~ Kimberly Novosel, Loved
Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance.
~ Patrick Marber, Closer
No woman is an island-ess. We fall in love in hope of anchoring ourselves to someone else, to keep from falling.
~ Chris Kraus, I Love Dick
When a woman knows she cannot attain her worldly love, she gives it an eternal form.
~ Haritha Velpureddy
When love intoxicates your heart, it is difficult for your soul to remain sober.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Lust promises you the world, and disappoints. Love promises you the universe, and delivers.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When you are madly in love with someone, even when sanity tries to rescue you, you wrestle it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Passion gives you what you want, lust gives you what you desire, but only love gives you what you need.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want the most beautiful fish in the sea, make sure you have the most appealing bait.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Many a woman is in a relationship with or married to her man not because she loves him but only because she likes men like him.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Story goes that he wanted many things from one women, and she wanted one thing from many men.
~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
~ Nora Ephron
You know what it's like, " said Storm, "when you want to--just--pour a woman into a glass and--just-drink her--just drink her down, one gulp, body and soul?
~ Andrew Klavan, The Uncanny
Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.--"Wanda
~ Ouida