Quotes about Desire

An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

The love of money is the root of all virtue.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

At the age of twenty-two, suspecting their time was limited, Ichimei and she had gorged on love to enjoy it to the full, but the more they tried to exhaust it, the wilder their desire became, and whoever says that every flame must sooner or later be extinguished is wrong, because there are passions that blaze on until destiny destroys them with a swipe of its paw, and even then hot embers remain that need only a breath of oxygen to be rekindled.

Chile with the purpose of finding her lover and becoming his slave forever, believing that was the way to extinguish her thirst to submit and her hidden wish for possession, but now she doubted that she could give up those new wings beginning to sprout on her shoulders.

The road of gluttony leads straight to lust and, if traveled a little farther, to the loss of one's soul.

But beyond confusion and rage, the strongest feeling I remember having that night was frustrated desire, because I would never be able to satisfy my need to run my hands over Rosa's body, to penetrate her secrets, to release the green fountain of her hair and plunge into its deepest waters.

Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.