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Quotes About Desire

I was very similar at 19. I wanted something to happen in life, I wanted a bit more. I wanted to find someone who could challenge my ideas. So I definitely tapped into that.
~ Billie Piper
It's like my whole life never happened, When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought. I know this dream, it might be crazy, But it's the only one I've got.
~ Bob Dylan
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
~ Bryant H. McGill
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
~ Samuel Johnson
The claw of the magnolia, drunk on its own scents, asks nothing of life.
~ Sylvia Plath
You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.
~ Tony Curtis
Life in the pen ain't for me 'cos I'd rather die.
~ Tupac Shakur
There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life, and that desire is praise worthy.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
It's such a cool thing in life to get what it is you want. Most of the time we don't, but occasionally we do.
~ Kevin Costner
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
~ Willa Cather
The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life
~ Willard Gaylin
Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
~ E. M. Forster
I'm amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.
~ Fiona Apple
I think I just have a problem generally in life of wanting more of everything - more emotion, more drama, more glitz.
~ Florence Welch
Wanting the best that life has to offer is so nice. Working for the best that life has to offer is greater.
~ Jon Jones
Everything you want in life has teeth.
~ Jonathan Carroll
The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.
~ Milan Kundera
There is a certain time of life, when we value a good stomach more than the mind.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living
~ Oliver Goldsmith
A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely
~ R.J. Ellory
and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.
~ Raymond Carver
I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.
~ Garry Shandling
We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.
~ George Lucas