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Quotes About Desire

Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.
~ Matthew Arnold
Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.
~ D. H. Lawrence
It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
~ Thomas a Kempis
I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid?
~ Mike Tyson
Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.
~ Nancy Etcoff
It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.
~ Nicole Kidman
So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.
~ Paulo Coelho
I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt.
~ Pete Wentz
We have been sold a lifestyle, when what our soul desired was life.
~ Oriah Dreamer
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
~ Ovid
There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life.
~ Richard Jeni
Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!
~ William Shakespeare
Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.
~ Zane Grey
If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.
~ Robert Stone
I have lived a carnal life.
~ Sam Kinison
I want the other riches in life; I want to get married.
~ Scott Hall
The illusion that you could hold to yourself the things you most want and lose the things you least wanted to keep..?s the struggle of l?fe.
~ Shahrukh Khan
I was blessed in the sense that I got handed so much early on in life. I got a lot of the things people go through their 20s and 30s craving.
~ Sheena Easton
Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.
~ Shekhar Kapur
My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.
~ Susan Sontag
Some of the best motivation in life is trying to impress a girl.
~ Tom Brady
Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.
~ Tony Robbins
That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.
~ Victoria Jackson
He killed himself for wanting to live.
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief