Quotes About Desire

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone." ? Jane Austen, Love and Friendship

Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.

She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.

I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be any more

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else. Everything is so insipid, so uninteresting, that does not relate to the beloved object!

I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.

she was quite ready to be fallen in love with.

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love. (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Me pregunto quién sería el primero en descubrir la eficacia de la poesía para acabar con el amor. ?Yo siempre he considerado que la poesía es el alimento del amor ?dijo Darcy. ?De un gran amor, sólido y fuerte, puede. Todo nutre a lo que ya es fuerte de por sí. Pero si es solo una inclinación ligera, sin ninguna base, un buen soneto la acabaría matando de hambre.

I purposefully abstain from dates on this occasion,that very one may be liberty to fix their own,aware that the cure of unconquerable passions,and the transfer of unchanging attachments,must vary much as to time in different people.---I only entreat every body to believe that exactly at the time when it was quite natural that it should be so, and not a week earlier,Edmund did cease to care about Miss Crawford, and become anxious to marry Fanny,as Fanny herself could desire.

She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing, and it was not possible that encouragement from her should be long wanting.

She began to curl her hair and long for balls

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

Most ardently

In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

Ansiaba su estima cuando ya no podía esperar obtenerla; necesitaba oirlo cuando no parecía existir la menor probabilidad de avenencia; estaba convencida de que habría sido dichosa a su lado, cuando no era probable que se produjera un nuevo encuentro entre ambos.

there are very few of us who have heart enough to be in love without encouragement.

I wish with all my soul his wife may plague his heart out.

Si entonces no se acerca a mí, pensaba, me olvidaré de él para siempre.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.