Quotes About Desire

Why is it that I can't feel this tragedy as much as I want to?

Un cigarrillo es el moledo perfecto del perfecto placer. Es exquisito y lo deja a uno insatisfecho ¿Qué más podemos desear?

My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget.

Una rosa se despertó en su sangre y ensombreció sus mejillas. Un agitado aliento separó los pétalos de sus labios, que temblaron. Sobre ella sopló algún viento sur de pasión y movió los delicados pliegos de su vestido

I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe.

El cigarro es un ejemplo perfecto de un placer perfecto. Es exquisito y deja a uno insatisfecho

I feel I must come with you. And will you talk to me all the time? No one talks so wonderfully as you do.

Yes, Dorian, you will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

I can resist anything but temptation

I can resist everything except temptation.

Secret to remain young is to have an inordinate passion for pleasure.

artists have sex but art has none

Lord Henry went out to the garden and found Dorian Gray burying his face in the great cool lilac-blossoms, feverishly drinking in their perfume as if it had been wine. He came close to him and put his hand upon his shoulder. You are quite right to do that, he murmured. Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

I would give my soul for that!

All good looks are a snare. They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in.

I have never searched for happiness. Who wants happiness? I have searched for pleasure.

the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.

His nature had developed like a flower, had borne blossoms of scarlet flame. Out of its secret hiding-place had crept his Soul, and Desire had come to meet it on the way.

to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world

For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce.

Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

El único modo de librarnos de la tentación es ceder a ella.

Women spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.