Quotes About Desire

I was never going to not want more swords

The absolute truth is that if you don't know what you want, you won't get it. So

The absolute truth is that if you don't know what you want, you won't get it.

Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow.

What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing.

He kisses—how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can use only the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you. There are some men who have never been kissed like that. There are some men who discover, after Arthur Less, that they never will be again.

Because, in an empty bedroom with creaky old wood floors, it is a natural human response to just stand there and shift your weight from foot to foot, and think about sex.

Apollo has something to teach us as we enter a new century of genetic modification, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology. It's a cautionary tale about that most fundamentally human of human tragedies .. wanting something so badly that you end up destroying it.

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

I wanted to ask her what the fuck was wrong but I had a date with a pack of skittish whores.

The perfection of intention. In the end, it is all that matters.

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

You're my dream and I plan to sleep forever.

People always want to leave a little possibility; no one can be satisfied with inevitability.

every myth, every fable must have some roots. Something lies among those roots.' 'It does. ... Most often a dream, a wish, a desire, a yearning. Faith that there are no limits to possibility. And occasionally chance.

For me," mused Dandelion, "a mattress without a young woman isn't a mattress at all. It is incomplete happiness...

But every dream, if dreamed too long, turns into a nightmare. And we awake from such dreams screaming.

Shani smiled even more beautifully and Dandilion was once more filled with the desire to finally compose a ballad about girls like her – not too pretty but nonetheless beautiful, girls of whom one dreams at night when those of classical beauty are forgotten after five minutes.

it is well known that if there is anything that makes men thirstier than the acquisition of knowledge it is the full or partial prohibition of drinking.

Yo, si algo deseo, no sueño, sino que actúo. Y siempre consigo aquello que deseo

But, Dandelion, I could never resist the temptation of having a look at something that doesn't exist.

They were caring and tender and, although neither quite knew what caring and tenderness were, they succeeded because they very much wanted to. And they were in no hurry whatsoever. The whole world had ceased to exist for a brief moment, but to them, it seemed like a whole eternity.

Ambition is the undoing of men. They always want what they know to be impossible and unattainable. And they are unaware of the attainable.

Human greed knows no limits.