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Quotes About Desire

The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
~ Pierre de Beaumarchais
Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
~ Aphra Behn
Absence -- that common cure of love.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
~ George Eliot
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
~ William Shakespeare
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex
~ Dan Greenburg
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love
~ Rumi
Love me and the world is mine
~ David Reed
Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself
~ Guy Finley
The best love affairs are those we never had
~ Norman Lindsay
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever
~ Mignon McLaughlin
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
~ Christopher Marlowe
You've spent your whole life running and running, trying to catch up with something that has never been there for you. And all you've done is go farther and farther away from the precious love that's been waiting for you all the time.
~ Brandi Snyder
If this is a crush, then I don't know if I could take the real thing if it happens.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Don't ever confuse the love of a loving woman with that of a lusting girl
~ Unknown
I miss you so bad but I don't think you feel the same way cuz if you do, you would've reached out by now.
~ Unknown
Be loved so intensely its fragrance creates lovers.
~ Unknown
Insatiable avarice only needs a teaspoon of love.
~ Unknown
There is nothing more important in life than going after what you love or rather who you love.
~ Unknown
When you look at me; my heart stops its beat for it knows that your eyes are giving me oxygen
~ Unknown