Quotes About Desire

Dear boy, I only want to be hanged. What possible objection can he have to that?

Sex makes me the kind of happy that I usually only manage to be in dreams.

Man seeks oblivion .

One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.

Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.

Bad enough that getting turned on when he had nothing more than a bath towel to hide it would make the condition kind of hard to miss, but getting turned on in front of his ex-fiancee was akin to smearing honey on his junk and walking into grizzly territory.

In parks, when people veer from the established paths and cut new ones through the grass, these are called "desire lines." Many people have the same desire when it comes to walking, which implies that we all want to get to the same place, and more quickly.

Why do I need credit for my desire? It's ridiculous. But I do.

Set a good example. Want to fuck yourself so that others want to fuck you too.

I am a jack-of-all-trades. I edit and teach and at times desire to be a clothing designer or an artist (one who doesn't draw or paint or sew) and I write everything but poetry and I am a mother and a social maniac and a misanthrope and a burgeoning self-help guru and a girl who wants to look pretty and a girl who wants to look sexy and a girl who wants to look girly and a woman in her middle forties who wishes not to look like anything at all, who wishes sometimes to vanish.

I wanted to escape my head because my head is so stupid these days. I wanted to be inside someone else's head.

I always wanted to be a mom.

So, nun wissen Sie's. Hoffnungslos, wie alle unsere wirklichen Wünsche, solche, mein' ich, deren Inhalt des Wünschens wert ist.

Feelings can kill such good hard things as love and hate.

What lies lurk in kisses.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

They had no conception that sex had anything to do with emotional feelings and the desire for human contact — even among homosexuals. All that they cared about was a little bit of pleasure for themselves.

Agape mou,' he began in a voice husky with emotion. 'You crept beneath my skin, affected me as no other woman did, or ever will, and you invaded my heart, my soul. Until you became the very air I breathe. You. Only you.

I thought how money was like food. The smell, the way it came in portions, how badly you needed it. How hungry you got for it, that acidic longing which burned and sickened in your stomach. Firm muscular control was needed over food and money. Money could kill you, wanting and needing it and fighting its power.

I didn't want to go to sleep knowing I would just wake up in the morning.

You humans are the ones who want more. You want the whole world to bow to human desires.

I know I love her, but I can't find the feeling.

I am not yet sure that I can live without her