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Quotes About Desire

No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference.
~ Serge Gainsbourg
What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival.
~ J. C. Ryle
Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen.
~ Meher Baba
Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.
~ Agatha Christie
I strode toward Mr. Coffee with lust in my eyes. We'd had a thing for quite some time now Mr. Coffee and I.
~ Darynda Jones
I mean, it is the perfect situation to really love someone to death and to want to rip their clothes off at the same time, isn't it?
~ George Michael
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
~ Alexander Woollcott
Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.
~ William Shakespeare
Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.
~ John Mayer
I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.
~ Nora Ephron
Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.
~ Andrew Carnegie
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
~ Bernard Berenson
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
~ Samuel Beckett
a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.
~ Gloria Naylor
What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
~ Émile Chartier
Well, maybe surf one time; I think it would be fun to catch a wave just once.
~ Crystal Gayle
From the very first time I rest my eyes on you, girl, My heart says follow through.
~ Bob Marley
Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.
~ Dwight Yoakam
Every time I look into his eyes I just want to take the ice cream or whatever I've got in my hand and rub it into his face. That's how much I like him.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
~ Jack London
You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine.
~ Rick Bragg
Fantasy is so much hotter than reality most of the time.
~ Adam Lambert
When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a bloody erection and a demanding thirst for indecency and criminal debauchery.
~ Georges Bataille
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld