Quotes About Desire

You knew because you wanted to live. I want to live, too, and if I want to live, I have to know things others don't.

Like a man starved, Noa filled his mind, ravenous for good books.

Why did men get to leave when they didn't get what they wanted?

It is not given to each of us To be desired.

Tell me what is there, what is there about you that so satisfies me when I touch you? from "Pazzarella

I had to be caught in the weak eddy Of your drivelling humanity To love you most

I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids.

In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you're wanted.

I can't for the life of me not eat something that I want to eat.

sometimes you like the idea of someone so much, you just want to do whatever it takes to make it work.

It's weird when you feel your dream slipping away from you. Especially when you have no other dreams.

No pasta. I'm serious. I will climb out of my coffin if anyone brings a baked ziti.

I lost my mind. I lunged at him and inhaled all of his fries standing up a foot away from the trash can. No food is as delicious as food you eat standing a foot away from a trash can. Ask any possum.

I can't for the life of me not eat something that I want to eat. You know how if you turned on a faucet in your sink to wash your hands, the idea of leaving the bathroom without turning it off is insane? That's how I am about ignoring delicious food

Every kid wants approval, but my desire to be well liked was central to my personality.

It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.

Cause that's all I want. A sweet, mature, normal, loving guy, with no baggage. And who has an absolutely enormous penis.

No matter how good you have it, it's cool to want more. (P.83)

No matter how good you have it, it's cool to want more.

I'm not proud of it, and it;s a little embarrassing to write, but sometimes you like the idea of someone so much, you just want to do whatever it takes to make it work.

In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you're wanted. The slightly nervous asking of your phone number. The text message asking you to dinner. The simple overture of wanting me can satisfy my ego for a good long time.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.' Eric Hoffer

She felt a surge of affection for the randy bastard--love, she thought, was the most stubborn of all the diseases.

Why is it so hard to find liberation? Because our own minds are the source of our difficulties. Eliminate desire, accept personal shortcomings, and work toward a patient elimination of the mind's own hunger for outward satisfaction.