Quotes about Desire

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

Most people'll run from their own mother to get to hug death by the neck. They cant wait to see him.

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. All in our custody seethes with an inner restlessness. But in dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth to meet what we shall meet.

You can think of me as a faithless slut if you like. I've taken a new lover. He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes he is.

I knew that courage came with less struggle for some than for others but I believed that anyone who desired it could have it.

People think they know what they want but they generally dont. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways. People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things.

What a man seeks is beauty, plain and simple. No other way to put it. The rustle of her clothes, her scent. The sweep of her hair across his naked stomach ( . . . ) That the man knows not how to even name that which enslaves him hardly lightens his burden.