443 Desire Quotes

The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Man wants little, nor that little long.

Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Or as an ook comth of a litel spir, So thorugh this lettre, which that she hym sente, Encressen gan desir, of which he brente.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

The phases of fire are craving and satiety.

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

Nous nous croyons purs tant que nous meprisons ce que nous ne desirons pas.

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Stop beating around the bush, let's get it on.

She brightened. 'Last week I ran a personal ad in the Guardian. I answered a few too. I'm not looking for sex; I feel too vulnerable for that. I just want somebody to hurt me and humiliate me.'

Know you all that if I am the Highest of the High my role demands that I strip you of your possessions and wants, consume all your desires and make you desireless rather than satisfy your desires. Sadhus, saints, yogis and walis can give you what you want; but I take away your wants and free you from attachments and liberate you from the bondage of ignorance. I am the one to take, not the one to give, what you want as you want.

Even in that pale light I could see that she was more beautiful than ever, the black shadow of her hair framing a face I had seen every night in the misery of sleep for so long. Those deep brown eyes still had that hungry look when they watched mine and the lush fullness of her mouth glistened with a damp warmth of invitation.

I'd like to borrow his body for just 48 hours. There are three guys I'd like to beat up, and four women I'd like to make love to.

'Need distraction / Need romance and candlelight / Need random violence / Need entertainment tonight / Need the evidence / Want the testimony of / Expert witnesses / On the brutal crimes of love' - 'I'm the Ocean'

A vehement eros runs through the Universe. It is like the ether: harder than steel, softer than air. It cuts through and passes beyond all things, it flees and escapes.

How difficult, how extremely difficult for the soul to sever itself from its body the world: from mountains, seas, cities, people. The soul is an octopus and these are its tentacles. ... No force anywhere on earth is as imperialistic as the human soul. It occupies and is occupied in turn, but it always considers its empire too narrow. Suffocating, it desires to conquer the world in order to breathe freely.

When did I first start wanting him to love me?

Does [he] imagine that I could desire a mere woman, when [she] is my wife?

There was beauty to him that for just a moment stirred in her a kind of recognition, perhaps a desire; the thought passed through her mind, is this how angels look, beneath their robes, shed of their wings?

I didn't wish [her] dead, actually. I just wished her gone.

Surely a balance between two hungers leaves both satisfied.

But could he blame her for being glad that she didn't have to choose? Glad that she could have both?

They were gnawed within by the grief of knowing that this greatest gift of all gifts was forever out of their reach.

Why are you at war with yourself? I want things that I do not want to want. Please leave me But why shouldn't you have what you want?

Only maybe he did get it. The joke wasn't men, the joke was people who didn't know what they wanted to give or get and so kept disappointing and being disappointed.

Hello, I'm a multimillionaire who is pathologically lonely and so filled with pent-up longings that you have only to think of a desire and I'll satisfy it. Mind if I come in?

Do what I want. Well, that's great advice. But what if the thing I want most in all the world can't be done?

Humanity in the face of the idea of hidden knowledge reminds one of the people in fairy-tales who are promised by some goddess, fairy or magician that they will be given whatever they want on condition that they say exactly what they want.

I want her everywhere and if she's beside me I know I need never care. But to love her is to need her Everywhere, knowing that love is to share each one believing that love never dies watching her eyes and hoping I'm always there.

Oh Billie I want you so, I'm trying to meet you. Too many things they don't know, too many repeatings, of beatings. ~ 'Closet'

I want you. I know you tried to find. ~ 'Farmer Vs. River'

I'm waiting for ignition, I'm looking for a spark Any chance collision and I light up in the dark There you stand before me, all that fur and all that hair Oh, do I dare... I have the touch.

Dreaming of the tenderness - the tremble in the hips of kissing Mary's lips.

L'homme jouit du bonheur qu'il ressent, et la femme de celui qu'elle procure. Cette difference, si essentielle et si peu remarquee, influe pourtant, d'une maniere bien sensible, sur la totalite de leur conduite respective. Le plaisir de l'un est de satisfaire des desirs, celui de l'autre est surtout de les faire naitre.

Le desir s'accroit quand l'effet se recule.

Man is not entirely an animal. He aspires to a spiritual vision, which is the vision of the whole truth. This gives him the highest delight, because it reveals to him the deepest harmony that exists between him and his surroundings. It is our desires that limit the scope of our self-realisation, hinder our extension of consciousness, and give rise to sin, which is the innermost barrier that keeps us apart from our God, setting up disunion and the arrogance of exclusiveness. For sin is not one mere action, but it is an attitude of life which takes for granted that our goal is finite, that our self is the ultimate truth, and that we are not all essentially one but exist each for his own separate individual existence.

O tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire; One morn is in the mighty heaven, And one in our desire.

Somewhere there must be Something that's different from everything. All that I've never thought of - think of me!

Then Love, I beg, when next thou takest thy bow, Thy angry shafts, and dost heart-chasing go, Pass rascal deer, strike me the largest doe.

Sex can be defined fairly adequately in physiological terms as consisting of the building up of bodily tensions and their release. Eros, in contrast, is the experiencing of the personal intentions and meaning of the act. Whereas sex is a rhythm of stimulus and response, eros is a state of being. The pleasure of sex is described by Freud and others as the reduction of tension; in eros, on the contrary, we wish not to be released from the excitement but rather to hang on to it, to bask in it, and even to increase it. The end toward which sex points is gratification and relaxation, whereas eros is a desiring, longing, a forever reaching out, seeking to expand.

In the subconscious you fuck ugly people, never beautiful, because the libido always desires something repulsive.

It's to me this evening something has to happen, to my body as in myth and metamorphosis, this old body to which nothing ever happened, or so little, which never met with anything, wished for anything, in its tarnished universe, except for the mirrors to shatter, the plane, the curved, the magnifying, the minifying, and to vanish in the havoc of its images.

We are our desires. (appears at the end of the video of the Nu Virgos hit Stop! Stop! Stop!)

It is not in a person's nature to desire what he already has. Desire is a tendency, the start of a movement toward something, toward a point from which one is absent. If, at the very outset, this movement doubles back on itself toward its point of departure, a person turns round and round like a squirrel in a cage or a prisoner in a condemned cell. Constant turning soon produces revulsion. All workers, especially though not exclusively those who work under inhumane conditions, are easily the victims of revulsion, exhaustion and disgust and the strongest are often the worst affected. [p.245]

Remember...that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will never last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all, for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

A man who has attained certain powers through medicines, or through words, or through mortification, still has desires, but that man who has attained to Samadhi through concentration is alone free from all desires.

With all, the beautiful things of the earth become more dear as they elude pursuit; but with some natures utter elusion is the one special event which will make a passing love permanent for ever.

By Manners, I mean not here decency of behaviour; as how one man should salute another, or how a man should wash his mouth, or pick his teeth before company, and such other points of the small morals; but those qualities of mankind that concern their living together in peace and unity. To which end we are to consider that the felicity of this life consisteth not in the repose of a mind satisfied. For there is no such finis ultimus [utmost aim] nor summum bonum [greatest good] as is spoken of in the books of the old moral philosophers. Nor can a man any more live whose desires are at an end than he whose senses and imaginations are at a stand.

Always had more dogs than bones.

I deserve to be chained by night in a church basement without company o' cassette player if I'm not man enough to ask you for the teeniest, slightest brush of oral-muscular affaction.

I'm so goddamn horny, the crack of dawn better be careful around me!

And their mouths are cut like razor blades, and their eyes are like stilettos, and her radiator's steaming and her teeth are in a wreck, she won't let you kiss her, but what in the hell do you expect?

Brama assai, poco spera, e nulla chiede.

Leaves of brown they fall to the ground. And it's here, over there leaves around. Shut the door, dim the lights and relax. What is more, your desire or the facts?

Improbe Amor, quid non mortalia pectora cogis!

I hastened to quench a thirst that had been burning a hole in the mixed metaphor of my life ever since I had fondled a quite different Dolly thirteen years earlier.

There's not a man in America who at one time or another hasn't had a secret desire to boot a child in the ass.

The monastic man is an artist.The philosopher Appoints man's place in music, say, today. But the priest desires. The philosopher desires. And not to have is the beginning of desire. To have what is not is its ancient cycle.

Without a name and nothing to be desired, If only imagined but imagined well.

Exile desire For what is not. This is the barrenness Of the fertile thing that can attain no more.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

As enviable and unreachable as a face in a train window.

He knew the truth and was looking for something better.

You think the President of the united states wants to fuck every woman he meets?... Well, bad example.

'The world is my expense, the crux of my desire.'