Quotes About Desire

Your mouth was made to suck my kiss.

It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time.

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

Before she cut her birthday cake, she cast a wish, then blew the candles out from his eyes.

Money makes a monster of a man, that makes money his master.

Alive she was strikingly pretty. Dead she was so beautiful you could have raised an army to sack Troy just for possession of her casket

If you knew there was a beach where you could pick up gold nuggets like pebble stones, would you not go there? Go there.

Reality is fatal whereas fantasy is something to die for.

Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!

Temptation is the voice of reason without its clothes on.

We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.

Connection and love: … We all want it. Most people settle for connection because love's too scary.

ANDREW: Not marriage, Inspector. Sex. Sex is the game with marriage the penalty.

The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of 'adaptation through maladaptation' which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.

The hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.

And as a young man raised on the films of the Vietnam War, I want ammunition and alcohol and dope, I want to screw some whores and kill some Iraqi motherfuckers.

What is there that money will not do?

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Discipline is remembering what you want

Le seul obstacle entre nous, disait-elle, c'est la boisson. - Je boirai l'obstacle, répondais-je

Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.