Quotes About Desire

It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one....

Let love therefore be what it will, my Uncle Toby fell into it—And possibly, gentle reader, with such a temptation so wouldst thou: For never did thy eyes behold, or thy concupiscence covet, anything in this world more concupiscible than widow Wadman.

But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The more my uncle Toby pored over his map, the more he took a liking to it!—by the same process and electrical assimilation, as I told you, through which I ween the souls of connoisseurs themselves, by long friction and incumbition, have the happiness, at length, to get all be-virtu'd—be-pictured,—be-butterflied, and be-fiddled.

The desire of life and health is implanted in man's nature;- the love of liberty and enlargement is a sister-passion to it

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

O how I envied him his feelings!

I fell in love with the idea that the mysterious thing you look for your whole life will eventually eat you alive. (Explaining her attraction to Moby-Dick)

Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.

Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.

We domestic sensualists live in a state of longing, no matter how comfortable our own places are.

Love isn't rational, it's instinctive

Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true.

I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die.

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into your head when you're not looking. Stars line up and volcanoes birth out bits of glass that foretell the future. Poison berries make girls stronger, but sometimes kill them. If you howl at the moon and swear on your blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

I kissed him until everything that hurt inside me melted into a pool of black water so deep I couldn't touch the bottom. As long as I was touching him, I wouldn't drown.

I have ten bucks in my pocket - what to spend it on? French fries - ten dollars' worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy.

I'm angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating icecream or kissing a boy or maybe a girl...

I like cheeseburgers too much to be a model.

I wanted a coffin made of wood from trees not yet planted my appetite for time was growing.

The merry-go-round is spinning too fast. I want to get off. I want to close my eyes, or just blink.

If you howl at the moon and swear on your own blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

It doesn't matter where I go, I don't want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don't want to be there either.