Quotes About Desire

I wanted to make a horror film about beauty.

I am corrupted to the bone with the beauty of this forsaken world.

Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.

Beauty draws us with a single hair.

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

I don't have to go very far to see the power of beauty. Being desired, feeling desired is a very seductive aspect of our being.

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.

I thought that beauty alone would satisfy, but the soul is gone. I can't bear those empty, staring eyes.

A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone.

... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.

We all have a weakness for beauty.

That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones.

Kisses were better than potions.

A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.

Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.

Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.

After the feet of beauty fly my own.

People give up the earth for beauty.

The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.

What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

Isabelle was exactly Simon's type—tall, glamorous, and beautiful. Come to think of it, maybe that was everyone's type.