Quotes about Desire

I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.

He was born sleepless without a talent for rest or the desire for it. --Cecelia Brady about Stahr

She laughed again, as if she said something very witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see. That was a way she had.

Well, there I was, 'way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care.

You see, I am fate," it shouted, "and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life.

She looks at him once more, with infinite longing, infinite sadness.

To hold a man a woman has to appeal to the worst in him. This sentence was the thesis of most of his bad nights, of which he felt this was to be one. His mind had already started to play variations on the subject. Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush - these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for the loss of his youth - bitter calomel under the thin sugar of love's exaltation.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

Today's man of the world proclaims that sin, and his enterprising in sin, are a part of modern living, but it is not modern. It goes back to Adam and Eve - to desire and the temptation to know - to experience evil.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.