Quotes About Desire

She awakens first at the touch of love; before that time she is a dream, yet in her dream life we can distinguish two stages: in the first, love dreams about her; in the second, she dreams about love.

porque es grande renunciar al propio deseo, pero aún es más grande seguir en lo temporal, cuando ya se ha renunciado a ello.

The truth was, she couldn't stand to let such an opportunity pass; she wanted to see what was behind the closed door, because it was there. Because leaving it unopened would get under her skin.

But since when has a lust-intoxicated man thought about the feelings of others?

Watch it, minx, he warned with a lift of his brow. If you intend to taunt me for every foolish statement I've made in my life, you'll force me to play Rockton and lock you up in my dark, forbidding manor while I have my wicked way with you. That sounds perfectly awful,she said gazing at the man she loved. How soon can we start?

Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker.

This is the problem with hunger. This is the problem with love. There is no end in sight.

The thought of squeezing back into his stifling pre-war life stopped his breath in panic. In truth, the only time he breathed easily was with Harry, whom he loved with that same red raw ferocity — and whom he'd love with passion given the chance. But he wouldn't get that chance. The world forbade it.

I'm hoping to do more than see it, mate.

Harry, who meant the world to him, and who the world would deny him. Harry, whom he loved.

We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)

What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.

If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.

It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.

When you pray for what you most want in the world, its opposite comes along with it. I was given a woman whom I truly loved and who truly loved me. The opposite side of such a love is the pain of its loss. I can only feel such pain today because until yesterday I knew that love.

Such were the factors that detached Ormus Cama from the ordinary ties of family life. The ties that strangle us, which we call love. Because of the loosening of these ties he became, with all the attendant pain of such becoming, free. But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must forever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?

They were deeply in love, which beats earplugs.

they came in search of the hot stuff, just like any man calling on a tart.

If a hungry dog looks for food, he does not look in the doghouse.

And blessed be the first sweet suffering that I felt in being conjoined with love and the bow and the shafts with which I was pierced, and the wounds that run to the depths of my heart…" any man who loves this poem as I do, must be my master... And any man who feels as I do about these words must be my drinking companion.

She'd never shaken off the feeling of being damaged by her ignorance of Love, of what it might be like to be wholly possessed by the archetypal, capitalized djinn, the yearning towards, the blurring of the boundaries of the self, the unbuttoning, until you were open from your adam's-apple to your crotch: just words, because she didn't know the thing.

When you have things, then there is time to dream; when you don't, you fight.