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Quotes About Desire

Se soubesse como gosto das suas cheganças, você chegaria correndo todo dia.
~ Chico Buarque
When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly.
~ German proverb
Be thou not ashamed of lust — Desire was sealed in primal dust It mingled with the seas of life To make the mud we know as love
~ Terri Guillemets
The desire in our minds is as real as the thirst in our throats.
~ Terri Guillemets
...all my soul within me burning...
~ Edgar A. Poe, "The Raven"
Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.
~ Author Unknown
A vice is a harm I do to myself in the pursuit of pleasure.
~ Dio Lewis
Had Stephen been better acquainted with men and women, she would have been more satisfied with herself for being the first at the tryst. The conventional idea, in the minds of most women and of all men, is that a woman should never be the first. But real women, those in whom the heart beats strong, and whose blood can leap, know better. These are the commanders of men. In them sex calls to sex, all unconsciously at first; and men answer to their call, as they to men's.
~ Bram Stoker, The Man, 1905
Women are beautiful, and yummy.
~ A. C. Van Cherub, c. 1987
...I had seen to gather herself out of the atoms of the mist. She was so fair to look on, so radiantly beautiful, so exquisitely voluptuous, that the very instinct of man in me, which calls some of my sex to love and to protect one of hers, made my head whirl with new emotion.
~ Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897
There's just something about letting a girl have her way with you.
~ A. C. Van Cherub, c. 1987
Who loves not women, wine, and song, remains a fool his whole life long.
~ German proverb
@AnonymousVoyeur, tweet, 2012
~ I'm a sucker for a vampire.
I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, and not my love to see...
~ Edmund Spenser, "Daphnaida"
When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum. I call out for you against the jutted stars And shout into the ridges of the wind. Streets coming fast, One after the other, Wedge you away from me, And the lamps of the city prick my eyes So that I can no longer see your face. Why should I leave you, To wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night?
~ Amy Lowell, "The Taxi"
For mother's kiss — sweeter this Than any other thing.
~ William Allingham, "Wishing"
In melody divine, My heart it beats to rapturous love, I long to call you mine.
~ Author Unknown
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
~ Blaise Pascal
Chocolate is the answer. Who cares what the question is.
~ Author Unknown
Criminal Minds, The Dance of Love: "Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
~ Sylvia Plath
Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
~ Latin proverb
An exhibitionist is nothing without a voyeur.
~ S.A. Sachs
Remember wishing the weekend would last forever? Are you happy now?!
~ Internet meme, March 2020
...and leave wishes to those foolish enough to make them.
~ Terri Guillemets