Quotes about Desire

A kiss may ruin a human life

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

I am happy in my prison of passion

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

A burnt child loves the fire.

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less.

Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel