Desire Quotes

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrewsNot to be born is the best for manThe second be...

False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.

False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.

False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.

False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Through my history's despiteand ruin, I have cometo its remainder, and herehave made the beginningof...

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gow...

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

IV   The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon beco...

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in ...

To put it in a rather vulgar way, I had been dreaming about love in the firm belief that I could not...

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

"Leisure without study is death; it is a tomb for the living man."

Others, I am not the first,Have willed more mischief than they durst:If in the breathless night I to...

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do a...

The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some de...

Why do You thus devise Evil against her?' 'For that She is beautiful, delicate; Therefore.

Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, lo...

A poem can't free us from the struggle for existence, but it can uncover desires and appetites burie...

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfacti...

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of...

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for ano...

Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot aff...

While a common reaction to seeing a thing of beauty is to want to buy it, our real desire may be not...

Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in w...

...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the...

Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side....

O bid these strangers go ;Turn to my lips till their cup overflow ;Hurt me with kisses, kill me with...

I could stand before him, be in his arms as I was just then, and still be lost to him, some phantom ...

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by n...

Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire.

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, an...

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

One could never know anything except through desire, real desire, which was not the same thing as gr...

...then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dr...

And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts...

I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from ...

Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a ...

And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who nev...

She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only.

This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes a...

We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

The truth is that this is the only way I can live: in two directions. I need two lives. I am two bei...

Primarily motivated by a desire to keep abortion 'safe, legal and rare,' female liberals in the medi...

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discov...

MINISTER: All he has done is to find some means of bewitching the intelligence. He has only induced ...

She stayed beside me until I slept, waveringly, brilliantly, hooded in diaphanous scarlet, and occas...

But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sp...

The story concerns the reason why we love to fall in love. Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch...

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, ...

But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you wil...

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind ...

Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all...

With total rapture and delight he talks about the birds which he can see from his prison window, and...

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of i...

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back ...

À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes.

It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t...

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

I want to sleep with you. Now, tonight, and at any time you may care to call me. I want your naked b...

Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You’ve wondered why they suffer,...

When they lay in bed together it was—as it had to be, as the nature of the act demanded—an act of vi...

She found a dark satisfaction in pain—because that pain came from him.

And she thought, with a vicious thrill, of what these people would do if they read her mind in this ...

I want to sleep with you. Now, tonight, and at any time you may care to call me. I want your naked b...

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a...

Concurrently, when it comes to matters of the heart we are encouraged to treat partners as though th...

By the end of the seventies the feared yet desired black male body had become as objectified as it w...

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, b...

...love must feel the ego of the beloved person as important as one's own ego, and must realize the ...

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape f...

My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend ...

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to li...

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explan...

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings ...

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probabl...

and yet…' he said, 'and yet, father, I am terribly afraid. I am afraid that the things the Landlord ...

You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, g...

You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, g...

You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, g...

You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, g...

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.