Quotes About Desire

In order to compete with sin's appeal, holy desire, the longing to live a Christlike life that displays the relational beauty of Christ to others, must be rooted in faith. And that faith exists only when it is lodged in the certainty that soon it will give way to an incomparable experience of joy that will forever destroy the appeal of sin.

A man looks at a "sex goddess" and lusts. A man looks at a feminine woman and worships.

And every faggot couple I know is deep into friendship and deep into fucking with everyone else but each other and any minute any bump appears in their commitment to infinitesimally obstruct their view, out they zip like petulant kids to suck someone else's lollipop instead of trying to work things out, instead of trying not to hide, and…unh…why do faggots have to fuck so fucking much?!

Indeed, to be fucked pleasurably is a gift.

How needy man is.

It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to," Clara said. "It's just a waste.

Once started, love couldn't easily be stopped.

You're like a starving person whose stomach is shrunk up from not having any food. You're shrunk up from not wanting nothing.

We mostly quarreled. He wanted what I wouldn't give. I wanted what he didn't have.

I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.

He loved the way she smelled in the mornings; he liked to sniff at her shoulders or her throat.

Wantin' takes too much time...I'd rather be working.

If you want one thing too much it's likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk

He was two or three steps away from her and for a moment they did not know how to get to one another.

At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be so painful?

He had done hard work all his life and was ready to stop, but he couldn't stop.

Por que siempre ha sido propio el amor que después de los besos vengan los suspiros.

Love's a terrible price to pay for company, ain't it, Matty?" Caleb said. "I won't pay it, myself. I'd rather do without the company.

You could have sniffed once or twice," Karla said. "It said in an article I read that the smell of women's undergarments is very exciting to most men.

God was knocking, and he wanted in bad.

Desire isn't necessarily a bad thing, but we need to see how pervasive and driven this whole tendency is, and bring some balance to it, so that we give ourselves some choices.

Unrequited love is just another addiction.

Looking in the dead bird's eye, I realized that these strange, unthought-of connections—sex and death, lust and violence, desire and degradation

He stood quite still, freezing, and somebody somewhere owed him infinite love.