Quotes About Desire

Such a person does not cease longing after insatiable appetites, struggling in the darkness without satisfaction. This tortures him and makes the fire grow upon him all the more.

One way or the other, she had no doubt she would succeed in influencing her husband and obtaining the independence she so longed for.

Finding bliss becomes one with the fear of losing it.

Envy is born in a man from the start.

Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard, and I hoped it would stay that way. I developed a yearning for being alone, unkempt, untended.

I wanted love to grow back, like the grass when it's mown down. To grow differently, if need be, like children's teeth, like hair, like fingernails. To spring up at will, wild and untended. The chill of the sheets made me shudder, and so did the warmth that followed when I lay down.

Je sais, dit Adina, les hommes avaient des femmes, les femmes avaient des enfants, les enfants avaient faim.

Hunger is not an object.

Hunger is an object.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love.

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

Nguy?n v?ng c?a anh là gì?" "?i d??i ánh m?t tr?i. "Kirihara, cu?c s?ng c?a anh ch?ng có quy t?c v?y sao?" "Cu?c ??i anh c? nh? là ?i trong ?êm tr?ng v?y.

I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme.But Money gives me pleasure all the time.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. —George Eliot

I was always desired. But now i am valued. And that is a different thing, i find.

As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every blank surface; he sees a guileless piece of paper, virgin and harmless, and persecutes it till it is black with words, and then besmirches its sister, and so on, through the quire.

Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop.

Edward Seymour says, 'You should have been a bishop, Cromwell.' 'Edward,' he says, 'I should have been Pope.

The multitude," Cavendish says, "is always desirous of a change. They never see a great man set up but they must pull him down--for the novelty of the thing.

He thinks, the cardinal would have known how best to manage this. Wolsey always said, work out what people want, and you might be able to offer it; it is not always what you think, and may be cheap to supply.

You should not desire, he knows, the death of any human creature. Death is your prince, you are not his patron; when you think he is engaged somewhere, he will batter down your door, walks in and wipes his boots on you.

He feels as if he is floating, and she is weighting him to earth; he would like to put his arms around her and his face in her apron, and rest there listening to her heartbeat. But he doesn't want to mess her up, get blood all down the front of her.