Quotes About Desire

If I look into your eyes a sudden fire burns in my veins.

My heart beats faster as you take my hand, my love grows stronger as you touch my soul.

You've knocked my existence askew, and yet I'm straightaway in love with you!

...Scorpio. Beneath this cool exterior is a powder keg of passion.

Most Scorpios don't know how to say no to a second drink.

Wish for nothing so much that you forget to make it come true.

I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.

Every woman deserves a man who writes poems on her body with his lips. And every man deserves a woman who craves his touch.

"You cannot let go of someone you never really had, and if you had them you wouldn't have to let go."

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

if I could have caught up from the earth, the whole of the flowers of the earth, if once I could have breathed into myself the very golden crocuses and the red, and the very golden hearts of the first saffron, the whole of the golden mass, the whole of the great fragrance, I could have dared the loss. — H.D., from "Eurydice," Collected Poems 1912-1944 (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1982)

It is easy enough to call men from the edges of the earth. It is easy enough to summon them to my feet with a thought– it is beautiful to see the tall panther and the sleek deer-hounds circle in the dark. It is easy enough to make cedar and white ash fumes into palaces and to cover the sea-caves with ivory and onyx. But I would give up rock-fringes of coral and the inmost chamber of my island palace and my own gifts and the whole region of my power and magic for your glance.

Beauty is more than skin deep. Beauty radiates from deep within. The innocence of a child. The love in someone's heart. A willingness to help others. The desire to make the world a better place. Someone painfully knocked down in life, who gets up, smiles, and continues to blossom.

Ego is needy but spirit is complete

Negative thinking is praying for what we don't want

Our attitude tells the universe what we want

Wanting to be is not the same as choosing to be

We can act on our dreams or keep dreaming

Let your will burn in this fire so that it takes you nowhere else. Let your self be burned in this fire of eternity, love and peace. Don't be afraid of this fire, it is love itself. This desire for freedom is the fire of love!

Nobody wants to work. Not even the breath wants to work.

All desires actually end in freedom. Your desire is fulfilled and you are empty. The emptiness brings you happiness, but it is unconscious. You attribute your happiness to a possession, not the emptiness. It is the freedom from desire that gives you happiness.