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Quotes About Desire

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week
~ Lord Byron
Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
~ Thomas Wolfe
Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.
~ William Hazlitt
Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.
~ Jenny Holzer
If music be the food of love, play on.
~ William Shakespeare
Love is merely madness...
~ William Shakespeare
In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
~ Tori Amos
The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we inspire
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
~ William Somerset Maugham
Love is a kind of warfare.
~ Ovid
They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.
~ Henry Rollins
Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
So dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
~ John Milton
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
~ Ovid
Love is blind, and greed insatiable
~ Chinese Proverbs
I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will
~ Sylvia Plath
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we're alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.
~ Paulo Coelho
Love is blind deaf dumb and stupid. If I ever find that little turd I'm gonna kill cupid once and for all.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific.
~ Abraham Cowley
A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.
~ Abraham Cowley
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
~ Paulo Coelho
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
~ Lord Byron