Quotes about Desire
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
- John Donne
Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
- Erica Jong
And there's also 'To him that hath shall be given.' After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.
- CS Lewis
Love is needing to be loved.
- John Lennon
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
- Mortimer Adler
We agreed to love each other madly.
- Jack Kerouac
People destroy what they love.
- Paulo Coelho
The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love and do as you will.
- St. Augustine
Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.
- St. Augustine