Quotes About Desire

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment Would you capture it? Or just let it slip?" —Marshall Bruce Mathers III, "Lose Yourself"1

A man after God's own heart is... a man who yearns to please God, a man who desires to grow spiritually, a man who had a heart that obeys.

God's greatest desire is for you to come to Him.

The more you pray, the more you are stating your desire to live your life by God's standards.

What surprised him was not the urge. What surprised him was the need to stay.

Everyone wishes a measure of mystery in their life that they have done nothing in particular to deserve.

In 1958 a friend in San Francisco burned out his veins shooting up hot paregoric, a cheap high. It's safer for me to continue smoldering just below the temperature of actual flame wondering if there's a distant land where life freely flows like a river. Years ago in a high green pasture near timberline I watched a small black bear on its back rolling back and forth and shimmying to scratch its back, pawing the air with pleasure, not likely wanting to be anywhere or anyone else.

It didn't work to try to write about sex, doom, death, time, and the cosmos when you were thinking about a massive plate of spaghetti and meatballs.

He's quite a thinker. I stood up and started to take off my clothes. He got down on the floor. We really went to town all evening and I sent him home before midnight.

How much l wanted to take scalps, but it was not my kill. - Legends of the Fall

Barb had no desire for public ministry. My role as an evangelical pastor created untold pressure on her, and she eventually stopped attending church. She loves Jesus, but the typical church routine and mind-set made her crazy.

He had wished for a dog, and as though some good fairy had waved a magic wand, there was a dog.

He had been born with a quivering bump of curiosity that stopped throbbing only when it was satisfied

It seemed that, right here, he had most of the things he'd ever wanted: a horse, a dog, a comfortable camp, and freedom to do work he liked. He wouldn't ask for another thing.

Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss

Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion.

I pressed her thigh and death smiled

The grand highway is crowded with lovers and searchers and leavers so eager to please, and to forget. Wilderness

Why the desire for death. A clean paper or pure white wall. One false line, a scratch, a mistake. Unerasable. So obscureby adding million other tracings, blend it, cover over. But the original scratch remains, written in gold blood, shining. Desire for a Perfect Life.

i am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes.

Love is a dream. Dreams are good, but do not be surprised if you wake up in tears.

We need great golden copulations

Do you think you'll be the guy to make the queen of the angels sigh?

Before you slip into unconsciousness I'd like to have another kiss Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss