Quotes About Desire

We want not only to be loved, but to be loved alone.

Indifference is the greatest aphrodisiac.

Go out dancing tonight, my dear, and go home with someone, and if the love doesn't last beyond the morning, then know I love you.

They were bound together by a common love of a certain kind of music, physical beauty, and style—all the things one shouldn't throw away an ounce of energy pursuing, and sometimes throw away a life pursuing.

He did not wish to be the man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

You know, when people who were once religious no longer believe in God, they never really change; they just go on, hunting for the ecstatic food, trying to satisfy that hunger.

Some live for love more than others. And he experienced a death that night.

What do you like to do? Do you like to get fucked a long time, deeply, slowly, searchingly?

He fell in love with people he did not know how to meet.

a habit he'd developed when going to dirty movie theaters in South Florida, something he did not want to give up even in old age,

For if anything is prized more in the homosexual subculture than a handsome face, or a large cock, it is a well-defined, athletic body.

We wanted to be loved by Malone, with this egotistic detail: that it would be an exclusive love.

But Malone continued standing there, within the house of flesh, the Temple of Priapus, staring out at that sparkling snowfall. That was it. That was Malone - standing in the crush of voluptuous limbs, enthralled by the cold, lonely, deserted street.

They made love much later on a mattress in the living room, as the cries of children playing in the street echoed around them, and when Malone left he had fallen in love; not with the young man, but the thought of him in the bathtub with his candles reading books of anatomy; and when Malone went to see him the next time, he simply sat with him in the bathroom and did not even ask to make love.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

My parents would take us to double-feature movies on the weekends, and I would just point at the screen and tell them that that's what I wanted to do.

I looked at 'Us Weekly' and said, 'I want to be famous.'

About once every three and a half weeks, I need a Big Mac, but after that I'm fine.

Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.

Because you know how you say I've got to really get down and really do some training and then of course, you never do or you do it for a couple of weeks and slough it back off again but I'm being forced to do something that I really want to do and I loved it.

I want a cheeseburger so badly, but I have to be a vampire in a few weeks.

Having a band was part of my heart's desire, musically. Within myself, I was saying that, 'Not until you have a band for yourself can you maintain the standard of your songs,' and the sound become a foundation. You don't have to feel around for two or three weeks for the sound because the foundation is already built.

If only meat weren't so delicious! Sure, meat may pave the way to a heart attack. Yes, factory farms torture animals. Indeed, producing a single hamburger patty requires more water than two weeks of showers. But for those of us who are weak-willed, there's nothing like a juicy burger.

It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.