Quotes About Desire

I can resist anything except temptation.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)

One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.

When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

A kiss may ruin a human life

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

When you really want love, you will find it waiting for you.

I am happy in my prison of passion

I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.

I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.