Quotes About Desire

It is because the Spirit of Christ, is not the one only thing that is the Desire of their Hearts; and therefore their Learning only Works in, and with the Spirit of this World, and becomes itself, no small Part of the Vanity of Vanities.

Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

You love something that ain't there and then you start hating what is there, and that's hell.

Macey watched her buttocks move in her fawn cords as if they were chewing a very sweet caramel.

She looked like a woman you might jump a few lights to get home to.

The loneliest sound in the world is other people making love.

You must always kiss as if kissing will be outlawed at dawn.

Everyone is hungry. That won't stop

She's beautiful. She's the only woman - I've told you this, right? -Naturelle is the only woman I fantasize about after sleeping with her. I still do. Sometimes I'm riding the subway and all I can think about is getting home and getting her naked. p125

You are what you worship. And you worship what you love. —James K. A. Smith

You have to be colder. Then he will come to you. The more you pull, she said, the more he'll run. A boy, a man, he is like an untrained dog who thinks that because you don't allow him to sniff the pole over there, that pole is the most precious spot in the world. Let him go, she said. And he will come running back.

I wanted to play sports my whole life. That's all I really wanted to do.

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.

Oh for holiness! Oh for more of God in my soul! Oh this pleasing pain! It makes my soul press after God

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

Oh, a barn, or stable, hedge, or any other place is desirable, if God is there.

All my desire was the conversion of the heathen and all my hope was in God. God does not suffer me to please or comfort myself with hopes of seeing friends, returning to my dear acquaintance, and enjoying worldly comforts.

If you organize your life around your own wants, other people become objects for the satisfaction of your own desires. Everything is coldly instrumental. Just as a prostitute is rendered into an object for the satisfaction of orgasm, so a professional colleague is rendered into an object for the purpose of career networking, a stranger is rendered into an object for the sake of making a sale, a spouse is turned into an object for the purpose of providing you with love.

Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know.

If you want to win the war for attention, don't try to say 'no' to the trivial distractions you find on the information smorgasbord; try to say 'yes' to the subject that arouses a terrifying longing, and let the terrifying longing crowd out everything else.

They say that foreplay for a woman is anything that happens twenty-four hours before intercourse.

Male desire is pretty steady and only dips in response to some invisible awareness of their partner's menstrual cycles. Studies in strip clubs have found that dancers' tips plunge 45 percent while they are menstruating.

Cats are solitary hunters with only the vaguest concept of hierarchy and little desire to "please" anyone but themselves