Quotes About Desire

The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never paying heed to the almost audible susurrus of desire- the desire every book has to be taken down and read, to live, to come into being in somebody's mind. He even hands the volumes over the counter, seeks them out in their proper places or returns them there without once realising that a Book is a Person and not a Thing.

I know that some of us, and for some reason I am one of them, get to reach out and touch our heart's desire, like a child who gets to pet the nose of an old horse, soft as satin, safe as a grandfather's lap. And I know, too, that when most people reach for that heart's desire, it appears not as a horse but as a tiger, and they are rewarded with snarls, frustration, and disillusionment.

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get

Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for

Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss

There's always a chance. Somebody has got to want me, and if they don't want me, then what? I want to play. I want to do what I want to do.

We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!

Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.

If I only had the chance, I'd ask one to dance, and I'd be dancing with myself.

Whenever I see that ball coming my way I am just hungry to get it. When I get the chance to take it I try to score as much as I can.

You wanted to drown in a woman. Here's your chance. Drown in her blood" ~Violence(Maddox)

I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.

The chance of winning a Super Bowl in a city like New York, there's nothing like it. Once you win one, you get that bug to win another one, that edge.

I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.

How my heart missed beating like this. For him. Only for him.

If you were given one wish, what would you wish for? To wish no more.

Vexed sailors curse the rain For which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon.

...So put a gerbil on your Christmas list.

All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.

Matt is grinning at me like I'm the new Christmas toy he really wanted, but can't play with yet because he hasn't read the instructions.

Christmas seems to say that paradise lost and longed for does not have to be paradise given up on.

We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary to it, or will lead to Sadness.