Quotes About Desire

Which man among us is not, most of the time, possessed of the desire to curl himself into a foetal ball?

There are men who need to defile themselves in order to get on with their lives.

Isn't a tangle of limbs a glorious thing to behold? Don't you wish to be in a tangle of limbs?

I was bent on love the way a crow is bent on a flattened squirrel.

Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure.

People want to feel good, be entertained, eat salty shit, and cum twice a week, and provided they do they'll stay quiet.

In my experience a boy will change his goal from unobtainable to obtainable once he realizes which is which. By that logic you should settle for me. Doesn't work for girls. We want what we can't have.

I told Tantalus to go chase a doughnut.

Tantalus made a wild grab, but the marshmallow committed suicide, diving into the flames.

Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled.

Nothing is more tragic than loving someone to the depths of your soul and knowing they cannot and will not ever love you back.

She grabbed his face and pulled him into a kiss, which effectively shut him up.

When she kissed me, I had the feeling my brain was melting right through my body.

Love was the most savage monster of all.

She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn't want to be without her.

He carried so much sadness and loneliness, so much heartache. Yet he put his mission first. He persevered. Reyna respected that. She understood that. She'd never been a touchy-feely person, but she had the strangest desire to drape her cloak over Nico's shoulders and tuck him in. She mentally chided herself. He was a comrade, not her little brother. He wouldn't appreciate the gesture.

It almost made me long for the flying pig. --Percy

I was glad to be with her, but it also kind of hurt, and it hurt when I wasn't with her, too.

He warned me the greediest wishes cause the greatest sorrows.

But too much love is poison, especially when that love is not returned.

We all do, kid. People have destructive impulses. Some of us want to see the world in ruins just for the fun of it... even if we're ruined along with it.

It was almost enough to make me turn vegetarian, except for the pesky fact that I loved cheeseburgers.

He had a crush on a blueberry bush once.

Hey, for a scythe, cookies, and a chance to commit murder, Kronos could hide his true feelings.