Quotes About Desire

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

Every lover is a soldier and has his camp in Cupid.

Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.

Love is full of anxious fears.

I see and approve better things, but follow worse.

Every lover is a warrior, and Cupid has his camps.

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.

Your lot is mortal: not mortal is what you desire.

Venus favors the bold.

Love is a kind of warfare.

So I can't live either without you or with you.

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

Go on so! I don't reckon yu' know what you're sayin'. Yu' might as well ask fruit to stay green. If the way we are now can keep bein' enough for you, it can't for me. A pleasure to you, is it? Well, to me it is—I don't know what to call it. I come to yu' and I hate it, and I come again and I hate it, and I ache and grieve all over when I go. No! You will have to think of some other way than just invitin' me to keep green

I'd always wanted to play an instrument myself, but my folks didn't have the dough to buy me one, and I didn't have the patience to learn anyway. My attention span was five seconds.

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work.

But I found it wasn't so easy to just turn off a crush when I wanted to. I vaguely remembered some quote I'd read in English class about the flesh being willing, even when the spirit wasn't.

You two have sex every time you look at each other; sleeping together is just a formality you haven't gotten around to yet.

The only real death that ever occurs is when a dream we cherish dies