Quotes About Desire

I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.

And a part of you wished it would just end, said the monster, even if it meant losing her.

To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it. ~Mistress Coyle

As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will. I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible.

He wanted something, he realizes now. Wanted an answer other than the ones he'd been given. Wanted to find out this whole world had some purpose, some particular purpose. For him.

Sometimes you need things rather than just thoughts.

Now that I know there's more? I want to have more. If there really is more to life, I want to live all of it. And why shouldn't all of us? Don't we deserve that?

I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to live long enough so I can really live.

Mikey," she says, but not like she's about to say anything more, just like she's identifying me, making a place for me here that's mine to exist in. I want her so much, my heart feels heavy, like I'm grieving. Is this what they meant about that stomach feeling? They didn't say it felt this sad.

It is not what I want from you, Conor O'Malley, it said. It is what you want from me . "I don't want anything from you," Conor said. Not yet, said the monster. But you will.

Is this what war is? Is this what men want so much? Is this sposed to make them men?

And I kiss him. And it feels like, finally.

What else do men think about except sex and enemies?

The world has always been hungry, though it often does not know what it hungers for.

People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry.

But I just put my hand on the back of his neck- And he says, "Viola-?" And I pull myself toward him- And I kiss him. And it feels like, finally.

Haven't you ever felt like there has to be more? Like there's more out there somewhere, just beyond your grasp, if you could only get to it..

The thing is, Todd, people don't really want freedom, no matter how much they might bleat on about it.

That's because the desire of most folks is to be told what to do." He looks back across the square, covered in tents and soldiers and townsfolk all huddled together. "People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.

He didn't want to go and look. But at the same time, a part of him wanted to look more than anything.

We've got now,' (...) 'And I've got you. And that's all I want.

The Mayor's wrong- He's wrong forever and ever- It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.

Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

But Jesus, people need, you know? I know that. They need things and they don't know why, they just need them.