Quotes About Desire

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

Even if we become glowing clouds of ectoplasm, there's going to be something we're competing for - and most of us will feel as though we're getting screwed.

If you dont get what you want, its a sign either that you did not seriously want it or that you tried to bargain over the price.

Who hath desired the sea?—the sight of salt water unbounded.

There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake,Or the way of a man with a maid;But the sweetest way to me is a ship's upon the seaIn the heel of the Northeast Trade.

He had always disliked what he could easily have; he had a passion for the untouched.

The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!

To change, a person must face the dragon of his appetites with another dragon, the life-energy of the soul.

Where will you plant your grief-seeds? We need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.

You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment.

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

This is how we are with wine and beautiful food... we want and we get drunk with wanting, then the headache and bitterness afterward.

Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.

I don't regret how much I love, and I avoid those who repent their passion.

Happiness is wanting what you already have.

All the little emptiness of love!

If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. If you're not into yoga, if you have half-a-brain. If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape. I'm the lady you've looked for, write to me, and escape.

And I know that I would take one night with him, one hour, against everything that the world, or Hitler, can throw at me.

There's love and everybody talks about it, but not all of us come close to it - or, if we do, it's not in the expected way.

Enough for me that you are beautiful: Beauty possessed diminishes. Better a dream of love Than love's dream broken; Better a look exchanged Than love's word spoken. Enough for me that you walk past, A firefly flashing in the dark.