Quotes About Desire

Stand and face me, my love, and scatter the grace in your eyes.

you came and I was crazy for you and you cooled my mind that burned with longing

Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.

you burn me

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

In fact she herself once blamed me Kyprogeneia because I prayed this word: I want.

gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly...

Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me, Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature….

I would not think to touch the sky with two arms

To want happiness for a child can be to want to straighten the child out.

I should have loved,' Hal said after a very long silence. Neville's eyes filled with tears. ' Aye. You Should have loved.

Suddenly I think that if I must retire from city life I might just as well live in France, where I would be happy, and I put the thought away as a private dream. - Elizabeth Pepys

We all want to be someone else. And sometimes we succeed in convincing ourselves we can be. But it doesn't last, and our true selves, broken and scarred, always win out in the end.

People thought money would make them happy. But money was the consolation prize in life. Money was what you had left to dream for when all the other dreams died. Money was what would keep you going when nothing else could delight you again.

Is the thing we love always our downfall? Always our destruction?

Hey! Shouts Camel. There ain't no woman in the world worth two bottles of whiskey!

Then I lie down on the horse blanket and drift into a dream about Marlena that will probably cost me my soul.

I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.

I paused beneath the arched entrance, where the drawbridge had once been, imagining all the people who had passed in and out over the centuries, every one of them carrying a combination of desire, hope, jealousy, despair, grief, love, and every other human emotion; a combination that made each one as unique as a snowflake, yet linked all of them inextricably to every other human being from the dawn of time to the end of it.

But it wasn't long before the old familiar discontent started creeping up on me. I suppose it was always there, somewhere in the background. All I've done, my whole life, is keep it temporarily at bay.

Give orange give me eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you. —NIM CHIMPSKY, 1970s Gimme gimme more, gimme more, gimme gimme more. —BRITNEY SPEARS, 2007

Sometimes I think that if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.

If I had to choose between making love and corn on the cob, I'd pick corn on the cob.

When someone covets something they desire and lust over it.Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem...