Quotes About Desire

Man is after money, but money is after his soul.

The desire is the father of the thought.

What is got by begging is dearly bought.

When a rich man wants children, he gets dollars, when a poor man wants dollars, he gets children.

Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.

Fucking for absolutely no reason is another thing that separates us from the animals."

Follow your desire as long as you live and do not perform more than is ordered; do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit…. When riches are gained, follow desire, for riches will not profit if one is sluggish.

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

You should make a woman angry if you wish her to love

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

Forbidden things have a secret charm.

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions

That something you do, and it makes you admire yourself for doin'it; that's what you really want to become

To be anything but kind in the face of male desire was dangerous. Nobody had to teach us this lesson—it was just something we knew from the earliest days on the playground.

Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more. —JOHN UPDIKE, The Witches of Eastwick

To be anything but kind in the face of male desire was dangerous.

All I wanted was this place of glory and things that can never be to be.

But sometimes you can want something too much, there is always a threshold & a place to fall.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.

Sexual intercourse is a poor substitute for masturbation.