Quotes About Desire

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.

I hope you find what you're looking for," Micah said. "I've already stopped looking," Damon said quietly. "It's kind of hard to look for something you've stopped believing in.

I think control is the wrong word. I would put it this way. You see a lovely girl across a crowded room and you walk toward her with hope in your mind. That's the way [my] pictures are made.

We did not hope for the same things, but we all hoped.

I hope she saw the passion, and no need to tell Mark Anthony about it.

It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

Well, I hope your hard self enjoys flogging the bishop tonight!

Fair as the moon and joyful as the light; Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.

My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

Hope you're pleased with the crumbs she throws you.

The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe.

Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same thing and has to do with being loved.

Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest?

I hope you're never happy with anybody but me, and every face you look into, I hope you're haunted by me. Yes, I'm possessive and jealous, at least I speak honestly.

Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.

Your name. That's all I want." I debate on whether or not I should explain to him that my name isn't going to help him in his stalking endeavours.

Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope

It is just that I don't know how I could live without the hope of her. It would be like learning to live with wooden legs.

Just as dumb creatures are snared by food human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.