Quotes About Desire

If books were girls, and reading was s-ss-ssss—fucking, this would be the biggest whorehouse in the county and I'd be the most ruthless pimp you ever met.

Folks woke up today to a poisoned world, and some of them won't see any reason to hold back on doing the awful things they've always dreamed of.

The Lotus Way might lead to nirvana, but it was a long trip, and when you had a lot of miles to cover, it was just natural to want some drive-thru along the road.

Neither disclosed these private discomforts. Each wanted the other to have the illusion that they might pause, anywhere, at any moment, and make love. And while both thought this was highly unlikely—not in this heat, not at this hour—the possibility kept bubbling up, every place they touched. This was the only true protection they'd brought with them as they walked deeper into the blue-gold Mojave.

Ancient religions used to tell people that letting go of yearning is the highest form of spirituality. But Buddha had it wrong. Yearning is the difference between being human and being a Clockwork. Not to want is not to live. Even DNA is an engine of desire--driven to copy itself over and over.

Pensando bem — disse ela —, a maioria das coisas boas surgiu para facilitar o pecado.

Don't you dare write any romantic songs about springtime Aubrey. It would kill me, and dying once is bad enough.

a dream is welded to a dreamer's heart and has the potential of stirring up the deepest part of a human heart.

I've accomplished a lot, but I still have more dreams that I want to achieve.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

It's horrible when your heart is somewhere your body is not.

Appetizers are the little things you keep eating until you lose your appetite.

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

Two young people—one mad and one sexually insatiable—both naked—are roaming this house. At all costs we must prevent a collision.

The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.

Son, in this life, you don't ever walk by a red dress.

Faccio solo finta di essere sfacciata. In realtà me la faccio addosso dalla paura. Questa cena fuori mi rende confusa. Non so se voglio davvero una storia lunga, o solo una scopata veloce. E tu?

Hap, even tough I'm a racist castrating bitch that wants you to be better than you are, wants you to do something with your life besides be a knockabout, do you think you could find it in your heart, in your itty-bitty white man's dick, to get a hard-on for me? In other words, want to fuck?

I could see her navel. It was a nice navel. I'd have licked champagne or chocolate out of that navel. Fact was, I might have licked pond water out of it if that's what she had in it.

Zo shook her head. It wasn't going to happen like this, she wanted to say, it didn't get to end this way. He didn't get to win.

When you know what you want, all you really have to do is think it and feel it.

But I could not bear to look into this man's eyes any longer and see such voracious need, because what if I realized that I was standing in front of a mirror?

If man doesn't dream, he has nothing." "A man whose dreams will never come true still has nothing.

I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.