Quotes about Desire
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
— St. Augustine
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
— Oscar Wilde
We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good.
— Tessa Afshar
I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.
— AB Simpson
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
— Marquis de Sade
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
— Marquis de Sade
One must do violence to the object of one's desire when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
— Marquis de Sade
Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
— Marquis de Sade
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
— Marquis de Sade
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
— Marquis de Sade
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
— Martin Luther
If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.
— Martin Luther