Desire Quotes
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"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."
"To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves."
"One can never have enough socks,"said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books."
"Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire."
"sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love"
"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee."
"Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile."
"Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.Good things come to those who wait."
"She looked like the kind of woman I could fall in love with. Trouble is, she was standing next to the kind of woman I’d like to make love to."
"The human body is the best work of art."
"I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are."
"She leaned forward and caught at his hand, pressing it between her own. The touch was like white fire through his veins. He could not feel her skin only the cloth of her gloves, and yet it did not matter. You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer."
"She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water."
"A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement"
"I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?"
"V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love."
"I want my time to be taken up by chores, errands, appointments, and arguments. In other words, I want to get married."
"Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury."
"You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination."
"I desire to be with you. I miss you. I feel lonely when I can't see you. I am obsessed with you, fascinated by you, infatuated with you. I hunger for your taste, your smell, the feel of your soul touching mine."
"Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love."
"I don’t want to make love last, I want to make love second to last. The last thing we’ll do is cuddle."
"Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals."
"My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."
"If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder."
"My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism."
"All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be."
"See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!"
"I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began."
"I have outlasted all desire,My dreams and I have grown apart;My grief alone is left entire,The gleamings of an empty heart.The storms of ruthless dispensationHave struck my flowery garland numb,I live in lonely desolationAnd wonder when my end will come.Thus on a naked tree-limb, blastedBy tardy winter's whistling chill,A single leaf which has outlastedIts season will be trembling still."
"I’m hard to love, but I love hard, like my heart is the sun yearning to tan your naked body. I promise I won’t burn you."
"Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay."
"I don’t want my love with her to wither like grapes on a vine, so I’ll water it with romance to turn it into wine."
"Why are desire scales 1-10? They should be 1-12, like a clock, because I want her 1-12, I mean like all the time."
"Wars fought over a face like this,” he murmured like he was talking to himself, my heart stopped beating and his thumbs moved lightly across my cheeks. “A man would work himself into the ground for it, go down to his knees to beg to keep it, endure torture to protect it, take a bullet for it,” his eyes came to mine, “poison his brother to possess a face like this."
"A window—it’s more entertaining than TV. Just ask a cat looking out, or a man looking in on a life he desires."
"She doesn’t want me to leave, and she doesn’t want me to stay. That’s a double helping of Doesn’t Want Me, and one big I’m Not Hungry back at her."
"If you want me, you’d better hurry. Act now, supplies are limited."
"I lost interest in her because she said the wrong thing. She said nothing."
"Why pay for an undesirable outcome with someone else? For the same money, you could have paid me to stay at home and do nothing."
"When the silent flamingo dances pink with desire, I’ll be there, sipping on owl stares and kitten curls."
"I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like."
"It’s better if you don’t come at all, then come and act like you don’t want to be here. The same applies to there, when I’m there, which is also confusingly here, though it’s not here it’s there."
"My love is meatloaf flavored. I just wish my meatloaf was also meatloaf flavored."
"Please, touch me, I pray."
"Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again. “Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing,” he agrees."
"My heart is burning a hole in my chest and every time you speak to me, it keeps sinking, and I'm left with nothing but ashes. I wish she were talking to me, because the more she speaks to me, the more my heart flutters like a rising phoenix.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz"
"He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again."
"For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel."
"Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us,..."
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