Quotes About Desire

To search her eyes for happiness and contentment—two things I want for her more than anything else.

He'd forgotten how much he liked her. She wasn't like other women. She was smart and funny and a little bit sarcastic. She pushed his buttons and she made him want to be better. A deep sense of longing pulsed through his body. He just wanted a second chance—to prove to her he could be the man she needed. God, that's all I'm asking for.

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

Won't you come with me she said, there's plenty of room in my iron bed. You're looking cold and tired and a little hmna. I know I'm not part of the life you had planned, but I think once your body feels my hand your mind will change and your heart will lose its pain.

The trouble with success is that it's never enough. You always want more.

Water becomes filthy with desire as it gains speed into a flood. It cannot move in a straight line.... There is too much craving and energy when water moves. It wants out.

The desire of water is scribed across the desert like graffiti, until all that is left of the desert is water.... In the scream of a flood, consummate carvings are left behind. Careful scallops are taken from the faces of canyons. This is not random work. It is artistry distilled from madness.

There are so many of us now that we threaten to devour the world with our touching, starting with the things we adore most. At the same time, we obviously yearn for contact, and I fear what would happen if we were cut off from a distinctive, on-the-ground relationship with the past.

A person's life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they're actually willing to sacrifice for it.

When you're in love, your brain secretes endorphins into your blood. Organic morphine leaks out of a gland in your skull, feels like a low-grade opium rush. Some people confuse the two, the head rush and the love. You think you're in love with a person, but you're in love with a syringe.

Desiree. It's like falling in love every night and having your heart broken every morning... Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past.

I do know that I fell in love with the moment of falling in love and I wanted to keep that moment alive forever, at the expense of all those moments to follow.

They see my fingers, they run. Dominique. Alicia. Penny. They see my fingers, they want their hair pulled. Alex. Renee. Kristin.

A person's life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they're actually willing to sacrifice for it.

She stole a piece of my heart but I couldn't ask for a better place I'd rather be imprisoned.

Some creatures live as stars do: burn hard and hot, feeding on those nearby but primarily upon themselves. Their lives an inferno and them happiest in that heat. Eating away at themselves until all that remains is appetite.

But the mind is a truth-seeking organ. To use that old cliché about our hearts, it wants what it wants.

Hotel rooms have an aphrodisiac quality.

I'm not evil enough to love money, but I am naughty enough to fuck around with it, spank it, pull its hair a little bit.

I long to drift through turquoise skies; race the wind in rampant flight. Ruddy chains have framed my eyes, they seize my heart and stain the light.

This morning I breathe iced air, and wander toward the waves. For a moment I live without care; a moment all my heart craves.

David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside him and essentially says, "If I could have only one thing, I want to be with God, to be in His presence, to know that he is always with me." Whether in good times or bad times, David knew the thing he needed most: to feel God's presence close by, intimately, through worship.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him. St. Augustine

Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.