Quotes About Desire

A man who's not content with what he's got, well, more than likely he won't be content with what he hasn't.

Believe it or not, we all want what's best. The root o' the world's ills is that no one can agree on what it is.

It is my sad observation that some men always want more.

Hoping for a thing often seems the best way o' bringing on the opposite

I only want to hold you if you want me to hold you.

Follow love and it will flee; Flee love and it will follow you.

all that was missing...was everything else? Ann Hood, the Knitting Circle

she had wanted love. She had thought love would save her. She had hoped she would be worthy. She had dreamed of redemption. And for a time she believed she had found it all.

Loving him was perhaps like peering into the rain—a sort of sightlessness, akin to stumbling about in a storm, grabbing the things you want to find, and letting the others wash away.

The sea was a landscape of longing, she thought, a landscape of ceaseless change.

At that moment, I wished with everything in my body that things could be different. I wished I could pluck out the threads of him that I didn't care for and keep the ones I liked. But then again, I knew that people couldn't be pulled apart in that way. Those severed threads would just cause the whole of him to unravel.

darkness, salt on her lips, big boats lingering on the horizon, crates of liquor luring them out, rolls of bills in her hands, lawmen on the take, and funerals. Desire and kisses. New York City on the arm of a man. A nice dress. Racing over the ocean. Whiskey bottles. Fear and exultation. How had it come to this? And where

Women complain about sex more often than men. Their gripes fall into two major categories: (1) Not enough. (2) Too much.

Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

Stolen pleasures are always more thrilling than those come by honestly.

I want her back" I said "I want HIM back"~Charlie

thought had been to escape

Heroin is a stand-in, a stop-gap, a mask, for what we believe is missing. Like the "objects" seen by Plato's man in a cave, dope is the shadow cast by cultural movements we can't see directly.

I seem to operate on the unconscious premise that if I allow inertia rather than desire to dictate my actions, i will live longer.

We thought the boy might want this.

No one had ever wanted him before. He wished he could take her in his arms, in front of her sisters

William wanted to cup his hands again, to hold close his love for his wife, to hold close her love for him.

She would wait, forever if necessary, for a man who saw the expanse of her, the