Quotes About Desire

a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?).

Odds were there'd never been a human being born who couldn't use a drink now and then.

Beautiful women were there to be wanted, of course. To men, they often seemed to be there for no other reason. But how many of the men who actually got one stayed happy afterwards? Not many, unless Chaim missed his guess. He knew too well he wasn't. What were you supposed to do? Turn into a queer?

I sank back on that couch, looking at Peggy Walker, wanting her. It happened that fast and that terribly. If it never happened to you like that, count yourself among the lucky, and God how I pity you. That's the way it happened to me, and I looked at Peggy and knew everything I wanted was there, the ankles, the breasts, the smell of her hair. I

Always remember, every success story begins with a START. Anyone can desire but there are few who DESERVE.

Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.

And biased by full sails, meridians reelThy purpose—still one shore beyond desire!The sea's green crying towers a-sway, Beyond.

There's nothing like this in the world,' you say, knowing I cannot touch your hand and look too, into that godless cleft of sky where nothing turns but dead sands flashing. '--And never to quite understand!

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

I just want to be loved, is that so wrong?!

Just because I said that's what I want doesn't mean that's what I want. I mean, that's what I want but that doesn't mean that I'm necessarily ready for it.

Wherever there's a happy vacuum caused by an absence of misery, human beings rush in to fill it.

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

the female is most easily won by the male who most strongly excites her sexual instincts.

A woman may not want a lover, but may yet want a child.

But you can't ever live in the place you dream about, the town you long for. ...the moment you become conscious of your desire, and then fulfill it, it evaporates.

When you get your power to be "good" from your desire to please man, you will ultimately fail because you do not have the power to be perfect

more precious than ever. And Mama and Claude acted like randy

Whom first we love, you know, we seldom wed.

What one really wants is attracted by one, and one is attracted by what one wants.

The reason why man seeks for happiness is not because happiness is his sustenance, but because happiness is his own being; therefore in seeking for happiness, man is seeking for himself.

Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.

Great as it is, the knowledge of self, if there is not that natural desire raging like fire does not manifest.