Quotes About Desire

Creation's gold mine is in you. The key is deliberate intention. Whatever your dream may be at this moment, identify it. If you cannot define your desire, it can never become a reality.

The only time a women wishes she was a year older is when she's expecting a baby.

You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex—that's quite a thought, isn't it?

Boys liked it when you were starving, like you had starved yourself for them.

I didn't know how I could want things so badly while making it impossible to ever get them.

I kept thinking, confusing myself, and then I stopped and listed all of the things I was sorry for- weakness of character, rebelliousness, being disrespectful to my parents, touching Gabe and letting him touch me. Wanting to be loved too much. But my desires weren't that unreasonable, and why was my body made to want things it shouldn't want?

It was best to be pined for when you went missing.

this admirable woman, in her intense desire to drive heretic Jews out of her country, was prevailed upon, by her confessor Torquemada, to establish the Inquisition in Spain. Believing

I wish we could go there," he said. The wind started to blow. Jack looked out one last time at the Chinese couple. They seemed to be glowing like stars.

Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.

Great anguish lies in wait for those who long too greatly.

Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this is what you wanted

you'll get into this morbid state when you think if you want something, then you shouldn't have it.

His feelings were confused; he wanted to grasp till Alexander's very bones were somehow engulfed within himself, but knew this to be wicked and mad; he would kill anyone who harmed a hair of his head.

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this was what you wanted.

grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.

It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.

Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger.

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

Choice, and all its attendant energy, is a characteristic of youth. It is before one chooses that one feels desire and longing without fulfillment, which gives an edge to any artistic endeavor. Galway Kinnell recently said in an interview that a young poet has so many choices but an old poet must simply endure his chosen life.

Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.

I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.