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Quotes About Desire

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
~ William Ellery Channing
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing
~ Unknown
You should make a woman angry if you wish her to love
~ Publilius Syrus
Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.
~ Unknown
You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.
~ Violet Trefusis
When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.
~ French proverb
Falling in love is so hard on the knees.
~ Aerosmith
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart.
~ Gordon B Hinckley
He who is not impatient is not in love.
~ Italian proverb
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
~ Unknown
Boys are like stars, there are millions of them out there, bbut only one can make your dreams come true
~ Unknown
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
~ Charles Lamb
Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.
~ Philip Pullman
If dreams give you power, then I'm strong enough to walk through my heart till you love me.
~ Reba McEntire
Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children
~ Bertrand Russell
Love is the combination of everything we have ever set our sights on. What will you set your eyes upon?
~ Dinah Maria Mulock
Love takes many forms. It is an ifinite emotion that can never fully be contained. You can not make yourself stop loving someone. You can not choose who you fall in love with, You can love many people at the same time, but most of all, you can never stop reaching for it.
~ Ashley Young
How easy love makes fools of us.
~ Moliere
My heart is yours to Fill or Burst.. To Break or Bury.. Or wear as Jewelry.. Whichever you prefer.
~ Dashboard Confessional
Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.
~ Laurell K Hamilton
But love's a malady without a cure.
~ John Dryden
Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn
~ James Thurber