Quotes About Desire

She wondered whether Pearl wasn't right in her dire warnings that this relationship with Suzy would change her forever. It probably would. But perhaps she wanted to change. What else was life all about?

New ideas are so important. The art of pleasing is to know what people want even before they want it.

She'd found that she needed closeness and trust more than sex. Desire grew out of trust, not the other way round.

For my own part, I have never found happiness in love.

He who don't like me greasy shan't have me nice.

Nostalgic memory is a sudden encounter with the thingness of the thing that has been forgotten, not the continuous desire for possessions, whether past, present, or future.

Avoiding the Scylla of the nunnery, Hermia sails dangerously close to the Charybdis of Titania's lust for the ass-headed Bottom, but emerges safely, and somewhat more self-knowledgeably, into the orderly harbor of marriage.

You know what I wisht I had, Ma? A pouch like a 'possum, to tote things. --The Yearling

Ever' man wants life to be a fine thing, and a easy. 'Tis fine, boy, powerful fine, but 'taint easy. --Penny Baxter to his son, Jody

Yet it was . . . Asahel who knew those books secretly by heart, and read, as laboriously as he did everything else, any scrap of paper with printing on it, poring hungrily over the magic of words.

I have hunted for less. I have killed for less. But never with as much pleasure.

There's more hunger in the world than love.

He was a hot, hot former priest and she wanted to pull a Thorn Birds on his ass.

If she would give the world what it wanted, it would deify her.

A mystery. Love strikes where it will, not where you will it.

There is no more destructive force in human affairs -- not greed, not hatred -- than the desire to have been right. Non-attachment to possessions is trivial when compared with non-attachment to opinions.

In no way did I allow reality as it was to intrude on reality as I wanted it to be.

Joy is not getting what you want; it's appreciating what you have.

If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself. That's why God cannot fill you with His Spirit. But if you will empty yourself, if you will die to self, you'll be a different person by the time you reach the last page of this book.

Most of us don't get what we want because we don't know what we want. Here's our secondary problem: Most of us don't get what we want because we quit circling.

We all want to spend eternity with God. We just don't want to spend time with Him.

until His sovereign will becomes your sanctified wish, your prayer life will be unplugged from its power supply.

I am going to pull the music from your mouth and furthermore I'll take the orange aching light that splits your ribs when I or any beautiful things come at you.

For me elegy is a Ouija planchette something I pretend not to touch as I push it around trying to make it say what I want it to say