Quotes About Desire

He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.

I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

Policy changes like what you desire come from our politicians. So let them know what you think.

the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.

We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

Yes, our eyes may perceive, yet they do not observe; they may believe, yet they do not question; they may receive yet they do not search: they are emptied of desire, with neither hunger nor passion.

Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.

Art is emotion without desire.

If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire

I don't want to overstate tantra because I'm sure there are scumbags everywhere, but it seems like it's an ideology that actually respects female desire.

People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.

Some people say that music isn't something you are; it's something you do. It's having a constant desire to share and express. But I believe it's something you are. To me it's more inward.

A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire.

I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.

I get what I desire, it's my empire And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire

The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.

My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.

We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.