Quotes About Desire

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

Then I am sorry I did not stay away longer I like being missed.

Someone or other was going to get torn asunder. And yet why shouldn't they fall in love, if even just for a short while.

He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.

Oh, my dear, how too marvelous! I've longed all my life to eat a flamingo.

If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

While they have not got their aims, their anxiety is how to get them. When they have got them, their anxiety is lest they should lose them.

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being acccomplished.

If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love.

After people are clothed and fed, then they think about sex

Because every time you said my name, it would touch your lips." His voice lost its hard edge, grew as dark and smoky as his gaze. "Like a kiss.

Foolish Lily, he said. Don't you know why I haven't touched you? Didn't you guess that once you were in my arms I would never let you go?

It is the end of the world. Surely you could be allowed a few carnal thoughts.

They make you settle for second best. That's what I like about the movies. There's always some minor character standing round to tell you the moral, just in case you're too dumb to figure it out for yourself. You never get what you want.

They were a susitute. They were what you did when you couldn't have what you wanted.

Their thoughts flowed together in an incoherent torrent of relief and joy and delight, colliding, crashing, looping in a cascade of longing and explanations and desire as overwhelming, as drenching as the deluge of voices had been, but wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, and she was going under, she was going to drown.

six emotions make up the first group: love, desire and joy in response to whatever my senses recognize

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.

It's not regret for staying. It is nostalgia for something that we believe is true in our illusion, something we will never have. And if we touched it, we would soon realize that it was not what we dreamed of.

What would you do if I died? If you died I would want to die too. So you could be with me? Yes. So I could be with you. Okay.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

From daydreams on the road there was no waking. He plodded on. He could remember everything of her save her scent. Seated in a theatre with her beside him leaning forward listening to the music. Gold scrollwork and sconces and the tall columnar folds of the drapes at either side of the stage. She held his hand in her lap and he could feel the tops of her stockings through the thin stuff of her summer dress. Freeze this frame. Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned.

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.