Quotes About Desire

Unrequited love is quantum romance

The more attention you seek the more invisibility you reap

You're either born a runner, or not. Simple as that. And it isn't the act of running that constitutes this demarcation, but the desire. Running isn't necessary

Thoreau once said that a man's riches are based on what he can do without. Perhaps in needing less, you're actually getting more.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.

Desire is perpetual transformation.

I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.

After all, I might not intend to use him for a plaything, but I could still appreciate looking through the toy-shop window.

He isn't interested in simple. He wants what he wants. No matter how much trouble she is and no matter whether he even understands it himself.

I would kiss the ground where your shadow fell just to be near you.

No Julia necesitas aventuras. Necesitas un amante unas vacaciones en el extranjero. Tienes que cortarte el pelo y nadar desnuda en un río. Necesitas comer cosas que nunca hayas visto y hablar lenguajes que no conoces. Necesitas besar a un hombre que haga que te fallen las rodillas y que te acelere el corazón. -Portia

The truth, dear reader, is that I was as ready for him as any filly ready for the stud. My blood thrummed whenever he came near, the air crackling between us like one of Galvani's electrical experiments. It was a mercy that we had not been alone in our train compartment on the journey back to London; otherwise, I suspect the urgent swaying of the conveyance would have proven too much for my increasingly limited self-control.

I like you a little more than I want to but not nearly as much as you think I do.

Seduction has been my life's work, mademoiselle. I know how a man looks at a woman when he has had her. And I know how a man looks when he is suffering for want of her.

He smelled of leather and wool and tasted of apples and I could have died in that moment and counted myself happy.

He was remembering not the woman who had come before, but the promise of happiness he had glimpsed once and never thought to know again.

I'm jealous, of course. He's got a rich, pretty debutante and all I've got is a stiffy for the little brunette with the curly hair out there.

You are all that I want and more than I deserve, and I will go to my grave thanking a god in whom I do not believe for bringing me to you.

So many hours lost wishing for things I could never have. Take me for a warning, Julia. Do not long for what you cannot have. Accept what is and thank God for it, before he sees fit to take it from you.

I gave him a watery smile. "There is an old Spanish proverb: 'Take what you want. Take it, said God. And pay.'" "We have paid every minute of our lives. Let someone else pay,

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.

People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger than death. Will is a powerful thing. Will--it's supposed to be a good treat, a more determined and persistent version of determination and persistence. But will and obsession--they sit right next to each other. They pretend to be strangers and all the while meet secretly at midnight." -

You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.