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Quotes About Desire

Please leave, Pierce thought, glaring at Morrow. Please get out of here so my left leg can jerk in peace.
~ Unknown
vulnerability equals weakness, and weakness arouses contempt. I had only to hide my longing and my desire, and they would be fulfilled. Or at least they'd have a chance.
~ Unknown
Before Ellen White had her first vision, we were about one thing. We had an all-consuming, irrepressible, irresistible, overpowering, radical desire to be with Jesus.
~ Unknown
Adventism was born because of a wrong calculation about the Second Coming . . . fuelled by an intense, emotional, highly personal, fervent, and ultimately right desire to be with Jesus.
~ Unknown
How terribly unfair that his whole self aches because of the shape of a shoulder, the soft line of a hip.
~ Nathan Englander
The way to be gay is to make other people gay," Miss Lonelyhearts said. "Sleep with me and I'll be one gay dog.
~ Nathanael West
Love is but a flitting shadow, a lure, a gimcrack, a kickshaw.
~ Nathanael West
Men have always fought their misery with dreams. Although dreams were once powerful, they have been made puerile by the movies, radio and newspapers. Among many betrayals, this is the worst.
~ Nathanael West
Bi?u zvezda jednog dana," izjavila je kao da ga izaziva da joj protivre?i. "Siguran sam..." "To je moj život. To je jedina stvar na svetu koju želim." "Dobro je znati šta želiš. Ja sam bio knjigovo?a u hotelu, ali..." "Ako ne bude tako, izvrši?u samoubistvo.
~ Nathanael West
My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
It's true. I......I wanted to be born in the year of the cat......!
~ Natsuki Takaya
Sometimes...I just want to run away from it all
~ Natsuki Takaya
The wish of peeking at women showering is also a kind of romance.
~ Natsuki Takaya
I do want to be with him. Not being able to...breaks my heart. It breaks my heart.
~ Natsuki Takaya
I think...there were a lot of instances where I avoided people to protect myself. I wouldn't bother anyone that way. If I don't know anything, if I don't take an interest in anything, if I don't get involved in anything...I won't have to go through unnecessary pain. But...at the same time, I might have kept myself from seeing...things that were very important...by always looking down. Even things I really...really...wanted...
~ Natsuki Takaya
I wanted people to notice me...but at the same time, I wanted to be left alone.
~ Natsuki Takaya