Quotes About Desire

He loves first editions, especially of women: little girls are his passion.

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses, cried the young Student; but in all my garden there is no red rose.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? CECILY: Oh no. [Puts her hand over it.] You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.

sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.

past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it.

He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them.

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.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky

Le donne ci ispirano il desiderio di far dei capolavori e ci impediscono sempre di eseguirli

I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. Youth! There is nothing like it.

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

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst—the last is a real tragedy.

A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be.  That is his punishment.  Those who want a mask have to wear it.

La única manera de librarse de la tentación es ceder ante ella. Si se resiste, el alma enferma, anhelando lo que ella misma se ha prohibido, deseando lo que sus leyes monstruosas han hecho monstruoso e ilegal. Se ha dicho que los grandes acontecimientos del mundo suceden en el cerebro. Es también en el cerebro, y sólo en el cerebro, donde se cometen los grandes pecados.

She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.

She was free in her prison on passion

love is not safe

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

I have grown sick of shadows. You are more to me than all art can ever be.

A new life! That was what he wanted. That was what he was waiting for. Surely he

Bronze-limbed and well-knit, like a statue wrought by a Grecian, he stood on the sand with his back to the moon, and out of the foam came white arms that beckoned to him, and out of the waves rose dim forms that did him homage. Before him lay his shadow, which was the body of his Soul, and behind him hung the moon in the honey-coloured air.