Quotes About Desire

I love you, I love you, my heart is a rose which your love has brought to bloom, my life is a desert fanned by the delicious breeze of your breath, and whose cool spring are your eyes; the imprint of your little feet makes valleys of shade for me, the odour of your hair is like myrrh, and wherever you go you exhale the perfumes of the cassia tree. Love me always, love me always. You have been the supreme, the perfect love of my life; there can be no other...

What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion. Desire, at the end, was a malady, or a madness, or both.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

It is said that passion makes one think in a circle.

En este mundo sólo hay dos tragedias: una es no conseguir lo que deseas y la otra conseguirlo.

Ah! ah! wherefore didst thou not look at me? If thou hadst looked at me thou hadst loved me. Well I know that thou wouldst have loved me, and the mystery of Love is greater than the mystery of Death.

Why didn't you tell me that the only thing worth loving is an actress?

Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

They say that love hath a bitter taste.... But what matter? What matter? I have kissed thy mouth.

A pesar de todo, cada hombre mata lo que ama, Para cada uno, oigan esto, Algunos lo hacen con una mirada amarga, Algunos con una palabra adulatoria, El cobarde lo hace con un beso, ¡El hombre valiente con una espada!

The more he knew, the more he desired to know. He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them.

I remembered what you had said to me on that wonderful evening we first dined together, about the search for beauty being the real secret of life…

La única diferencia que hay entre un capricho y una pasión eterna es que el capricho dura un poco más de tiempo.

She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions.

And each man kills the thing he loves.

it is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing.

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

THE VOICE OF SALOME: Ah! I have kissed thy mouth, Iokanaan, I have kissed thy mouth. There was a bitter taste on thy lips. Was it the taste of blood?... Nay; but perchance it was the taste of love... They say that love hath a bitter taste... But what matter? What matter? I have kissed thy mouth, Iokanaan, I have kissed thy mouth.

I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

Yet each man kills the things he loves

I know what pleasure is, cried Dorian. It is to adore someone.

Put out the torches! Hide the moon! Hide the stars! Let us hide ourselves in our palace, Herodias. I begin to be afraid.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yeild to it.

Oh my dear fellow...should you not be askind, 'Would the tea like the cup?