Quotes About Desire

The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry.

Besides, the storm which rages in her breast was increasing in its violence, and she would have burst her prison walls if her body could have enjoyed, for a single instant, the same proportions as her soul.

Oh, certainly, death, sudden and violent, was a good way to foil his implacable enemies, who seemed to be pursuing him with some incomprehensible desire for vengeance. Yes, but that meant dying!

I never play, because I am not rich enough to afford to lose or poor enough to want to win. Maximilien Morrel, The Count of Monte Cristo

When I think of you my heart beats fast, the blood burns in my veins and I can hardly breathe.

Dantes was on the way he desired to follow, and was moving towards the end he wished to achieve; his heart was in a fair way of petrifying in his bosom.

hearts inflamed by obstacles to their desire grew cold in time of security;

But these first needs of the heart are so imperious, these outpourings of amorous melancholy in young people are at once so sweet and so bitter, that they have often all the real marks of the passion.

Yet what is expectation but a kind of folly, and what is that folly but an excess of hope?

As one historian has neatly put it: The futures market is a place where "men who don't own something are selling that something to men who don't really want it.

KAREN: Come on, honey, I'm mincing garlic and you're feeling amorous. Tell me: what am I supposed to do about this? GABE: You could try putting down the knife.

Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Has your worship or devotional experience lately provided you with ravishing tastes of what A. W. Tozer called the "piercing sweetness" 7 of Christ, only to leave you with a divine discontent that desires more?

algunos que fracasan en practicar las Disciplinas las descuidan simplemente porque no las desean, y no las desean porque no tienen hambre de Dios. No conocen a Dios, por lo que los medios divinos para experimentar y disfrutar a Dios personalmente no les son atractivos.

Those who eat too much and those who intentionally eat too little are looking for satisfaction in something other than God.

Everywhere sex is understood to be something females have that males want.

No more Oreo's!

But even though disciplining yourself is sometimes diffcult and involves struggle, self-discipline is not self-punishment. It is instead an attempt to do what, prompted by the Spirit, you actually want in your heart to do.

Heather wake up, it is I...Quinn. I have come back to you. Please wake up. I have missed you terribly and I love you so very much." Never

He wanted badly to tell her that he would never leave her that she belonged to him and always would, but that was not the truth. She did not belong to him. He

I've barely been able to think about anything else.' 'Other than...' He waited for me to finish. 'Kissing you, dummy,' I said. 'Really?' 'You shouldn't be that surprised,' I said. He grinned. 'I'm just glad to know we're on the same page.

I bow my head submissively and see that my chest is heaving, already dotted with the telltale flush of sexual arousal.

Books are worse than wine, I say. You read one and you need another - there's no end to it. What ails you that you cannot content yourself with just living on under the sun?