Quotes About Desire

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

From my first breath in this world, all I wanted was a good set of lungs and air to fill them with... p 1

A cowboy doesn't ask for much, that's my observation. A flashy ride, a pretty girl, momentary glory...

My weary old ground was broken and watered, and what sprang up was a generalized longing.

And who doesn't long for the door in the air.

We all dream of finding but what's wrong with looking?

You feel like butter, he whispered, and velvet.

Though little had actually happened to Susannah the car smelled of lovemaking.

As if reading his mind, Jamal-al-Din said, 'To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.

The cause of these uprisings was the desire to rule, rooted in acquisitiveness and the love of honor, but after a time the violence seemed to take on a life of its own.

The justice of those who are not wise appears in a different light when justice in the city is being considered, on the one hand, and justice in the soul on the other. This fact shows that the parallelism between the city and the soul is defective. This parallelism requires that, just as in the city the warriors occupy a higher rank than the money-makers, so in the soul spiritedness occupy a higher rank than desire.

Although not all flesh is forbidden, everything that is forbidden is flesh.

La maledizione dell'uomo è di scoprire i mali nascosti in ciò che desidera solo quando è troppo tardi.

I've not been right for any man or myself since I met you.

In My Secret Life I saw you this morning, you were moving so fast. Can't seem to loosen my grip On the past. And I miss you so much, there's no one in sight. And we're still making love In my secret life. I smile when I am angry, I cheat and I lie, I do what I have to do to get by, In my secret life.

It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender

a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.

I have often prayed for you like this Let me have her

Hoping never done nothing. It wanting that do it. You got to want to win so bad you can taste it. If you want to win bad enough you win.

All I need's a fight and a woman. Then I'm set. I get the fight I'll get the money. I get the money I'll get the woman. There's some women that love you for yourself, but that don't last long.

Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness.

The hunter who consistently brought meat back displayed daring and courage, two qualities that females desired in a potential mate. Thus hunting possessed an erotic overtone: meat was an aphrodisiac.

On ignorance depends karma; on karma depends consciousness; on consciousness depend name and form; on name and form depend the five organs of sense; on the five organs of sense depends contact; on contact depends sensation; on sensation depends desire; on desire depends clutching; on clutching depends existence; on existence depends birth; on birth depend old age and death, sorrow, lamentation, misery, grief and despair. —The Buddha's twelvefold concatenation of cause and effect