Quotes About Desire

I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it's egotistical, but I have it in me. I don't want to be a tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls.

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them

When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish

Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.

It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

What is fear of need but need itself?

A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.

Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.

We are lovers, fear and I. She calls to me, and I let her in.

Still humping the American Dream

It's important to only think about what you desire, not what you fear.

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

Is your fear of failure greater than your desire to succeed?

The fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain.

Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.

Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it.

Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire.

Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.

I ached for the difference between Carlisle and me - that he could touch her so gently, without fear, knowing he would never harm her.

As fast as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire.

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.

Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.

Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.