Quotes About Desire

Isn't reality an insatiable AIDS-riddled whore?

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Sex is one of the most important aspects of a healthy relationship, and finding your sexy self adds to the feeling that you're with the right person.

Whether a man is twenty or seventy, therefore, his preferred age for a new partner is about twenty, or even younger.

The more men and women drink, the more they both seek intercourse — or, at least, the less they resist it.

Yeah, great at the physical level level, but I still need more. Sorry. Maybe someday I'll accidentally fall in love with you after all, and we'll be right back here.

I still wouldn't be able to control myself around him, and I'm math geek enough to know that equation doesn't work out.

Matt is a tortured soul,' Amanda insisted. 'He's Heathcliff and you're Cathy. He's Rochester and you're Jane Eyre. He's-' 'Darcy and I'm Elizabeth. I get it. And you're wrong.

Mine," he said. Grabbed at a passing thought. "Love you. Marry me.

Clare," he said, his voice thicker with desire. He made himself concentrate on the road, on driving, though his peripheral vision showed her breasts rising faster. "Yes?" she asked, quiet, more vulnerable. That vulnerability called out to him now more than ever before . . . because he knew he was flawed so badly. "I like you." Hell, that sounded dumb.

Der ungenannte Wunsch, von Leben und Land nie erfüllt, jetzt Reisender, segle vorwärts, zu suchen und zu finden.

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.

Justice. There's a thing we shall ever thirst after, and ever be parched. No. We content ourselves with law.

Why does the forbidden always add that edge of sweetness?

there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.

I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.

I passed that day in pleasure, which is to say, in the sort of work I wanted to do rather than the work that I thought I ought to be doing.

I looked at her, wanting her with all the lust of my months alone and untouched. But I knew also that for that deeper hunger for companionship and understanding, she offered me no more solace than any man might find in his own hand.

No one can have so little that someone else can find nothing to envy. Poverty and simplicity were not shields from the greed of others. If you had nothing left to steal, they'd take your body and enslave it.

When you want a thing so badly for so long, and then it comes time to face that you cannot have it, sometimes—' 'Sometimes you can't believe it when it comes to you. Sometimes you're afraid to believe it. I understand your hesitation.

To sate your need without love is theft

Even the homeliest girl secretly dreams that a man might fall in love with her inner spirit.

It was a terrible division, to feel such need for someone, and yet angry that need existed.