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Quotes About Desire

That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.
~ William S. Burroughs
I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
~ Jonathan Swift
I don't want you to cook my bread, I don't want you to make my bed. I don't want you to because I'm sad and blue, I just want to make love to you.
~ Willie Dixon
I want you, I need you, but there ain't no way I'm EVER gonna love you. Now don't be sad, cause two out of three ain't bad.
~ Meat Loaf
This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
~ Erica Jong
It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'd rather sing a sad song than eat.
~ George Jones
The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will still come and I will welcome them because they contain you.
~ Faraaz Kazi
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
~ Neil Gaiman, MirrorMask
I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other poets. I want someone to mouth me.
~ Sylvia Plath
We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.
~ Clive Barker
There is no love; There are only the various envies, all of them sad.
~ W. H. Auden
Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what? Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away?
~ Pablo Neruda
How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I'm feeling sad.
~ Elvis Presley
I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you'd live to be a hundred years old. I didn't know. I didn't know that you were ashamed of me.
~ Khaled Hosseini
A sob caught in my chest. I didn't even know what a gray was, other than a drab color. All I knew was that I was hungry all the time. And I knew, deep down, that it wasn't just for food.
~ Michelle Rowen, Dark Kiss
It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
It shouldn't make you sad to know you're loved, Grayson." But it did. It made him sad, and panicked, and for just a moment, wishful.
~ Nora Roberts
I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.
~ Lisa Unger
Darling, even raindrops try to wipe my teardrops but your thoughts haul out more tears from my liquid eyes and then teardrops replace raindrops...
~ Abhishek Rath
Yes i am sad because i want to be happy, if never want to be a happy i never became sad
~ kaushik nathan
I just didn't want to be a loser anymore...-Mitsuko Souma
~ Koushun Takami, Battle Royale
Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.
~ Murray Bookchin
For who would live if life held no allurements?
~ Lewis Howard Latimer