Quotes About Desire

Some people suffer from the green-eyed monster called envy.

Will you love me enough?

Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore.

I both love and do not love; am mad and not mad.

Venus, queen of soft desire, Leading Hymen's happy choir.

Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.

I'll curse all dull Sobriety, Fill'd with Wine's delicious Charms, Fill'd with a Mistress in my Arms.

But O! my heart, what shade can prove Thy guard against this heat of Love?

Pretty Rose, thou gaudy flower, Sacred to Love's almighty power, Whence there's no Lover ever seeks, But finds Thee in his Mistress' cheeks.

I both love and do not love, and am mad and am not mad.

Bring water, bring wine, boy! Bring flowering garlands to me! Yes, bring them, so that I may try a bout with love.

Boy with a maiden's glance, I seek you out, but you hear not, Unknowing that you are the charioteer Of my soul.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

La individualidad es motivada y perpetuada por el deseo, y la causa de todo deseo es la ignorancia (avidy?).

I'm filled with desire—to live, to write, to do everything. Desire itself is a kind of immortality.

The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.

Travel is like adultery; one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live...in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.

It seemed to me that a penis was a very primitive instrument for dealing with life.

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.

For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.

Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.

It is not customary to love what one has