Quotes About Desire

I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand. I

The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

I had come to see, too, that all my characters and I were motivated by the same inspiration. Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love—well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it. As

It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it's there.

You may think there's nothing very interesting about seeing someone sleep, but that probably means you've never found the girl of your dreams.

It would be far worse to think you were passionately wanted and loved and find out that you never were

Why do you always get the tired ones when you're ready and the randy ones when you're tired?

Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.

Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.

She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.

I am; I was. I want to be.

Buildings, streets, the economy, the government, even our families, stay together simply because we want them to. Without that will, that desire to maintain, things fall apart.

People are just greedy animals, after all.

wondered about what he said and then thought hard. I could never be a dick, not to Gretchen anyway, so I guess I was doomed; doomed to go for this girl that didn't go for me. But that was OK as I long as I did everything I could.

That first loving kiss, the one that comes out of you from the source of your personal river, and the one that comes from her that is the same, there's never another moment like it; never another flame that burns so hot. It can never be that good again, ever. All manner of goodness can come after, but it's different. And that's a good thing, because if we burned that hot for too long, we'd be nothing but ash.

True hunger makes eating more pleasurable, and this sensation better directs us

Symptoms of True Hunger Enhanced taste sensation Increased salivation Gnawing throat sensation

The love of Christ is insatiable. The more you experience His redeeming love, the more you desire it. The more you desire it, the more you want to dwell on it. The more you dwell on it, the more you cherish it and are satisfied by it. You can never 'mind' Christ's love too often, since his love knows no bounds.

All the best elements of patriotism—the spirit of sacrifice, the desire for justice and protection for the oppressed—sprouted in the soil of chivalry. It is in the classic country of chivalry

I tell them that in Finland the first thing men coming back from the front wanted was sex; only after that did they take their skis off.

But then all at once he wanted to have his own goods and money and to be his own master, and so he asked his father to give him his portion, and he left his home and went and wasted all his substance.

I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.

God is willing to suffer to get what He wants; evil is not.