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Quotes About Desire

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness was filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I wish I had the boy.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her. He would have liked to have a girl but he did not want to have to spend a long time getting her. He did not want to get into the intrigue and the politics. He did not want to have to do any courting. He did not want to tell any more lies. It wasn't worth it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
How every one he had slept with had only made him miss her more
~ Ernest Hemingway
No. It's bad for me. Cole Porter wrote the words and the music. This knowledge that you're going mad for me.
~ Ernest Hemingway
They all wanted something that i did not want and i would get it without wanting it, if it worked.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Please come to bed and let me see you and feel you.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Ambition...the original of vices; Mother of hypocrisy, parent of envy, engineer of deceit
~ Ernest Hemingway
I'd like to destroy you a few times in bed
~ Ernest Hemingway
THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO You'll be one. Everybody gets what they want. That's what they always tell me.
~ Ernest Hemingway
We both touched wood on the café table and the waiter came to see what it was we wanted. But what we wanted not he, nor anyone else, nor knocking on wood or marble, as this café table-top was, could ever bring us. But we did not know it that night and we were very happy.
~ Ernest Hemingway
do you want me to shoot thee, ingles ?... quieres ? it is nothing.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I want nothing. I just want the emptiness to mean something.
~ Ernest Hemingway
You love. And what about that you were talking to me all those nights? That's not love. Those are only passion and lust. When man loves, then he wishes to do something for that. He wants to sacrifice. And you want to serve.
~ Ernest Hemingway
He did not want them themselves really. They were too complicated. There was something else. Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her. He would have liked to have a girl but he did not want to have to spend a long time getting her. He did not want to get into the intrigue and the politics. He did not want to have to do any courting. He did not want to tell any more lies. It wasn't worth it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a middle-aged woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?" "I'd like to destroy you a few times in bed," he said. "Yes. That's the good destruction. That's the way we're made to be destroyed.
~ Ernest Hemingway
A young dame with pretty eyes and a smile can make an old man do just about anything.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I don't want any one else to touch you. I'm silly. I get furious if they touch you.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But I love thee as I love what I love most in the world and I love thee more.
~ Ernest Hemingway
To drink is nothing. It's important to be drunk.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I had hoped for something. Defeat? No. Something more. There isn't anything more. Except victory. It may be worse.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Pray for anything you like, if it is for the good of us all. -I pray for beer, for meat and for a new wife with hard hands. You can share the wife.
~ Ernest Hemingway
By then I knew that everything good and bad left emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.
~ Ernest Hemingway
We both touched wood on the café table and the wait came to see what it was we wanted. But what we wanted not he, nor anyone else, nor knocking on wood or marble, as this café table-top was, could ever bring us. But we did not know it that night and we were very happy.
~ Ernest Hemingway