Quotes about Desire

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

I love you not because I need you, I need you because I love you.

Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.

People ask me if I am going on making cheesecake pictures now that I'm a star. My answer is that as long as there is a boy in Korea who wants a pinup of me, I'll go on posing for them.

Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again

All mankind loves a lover.

As the ocean is never full of water, so is the heart never full of love.

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have given all he had or ever might have to hold her warm in his arms, both of them wrapped in one blanket, and sleep. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.