Quotes about Desire
Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science , instantly fades away.
— Milan Kundera
It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys.
— Rainbow Rowell
Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'
— Albert Camus
The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.
— Albert Camus
If all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.
— CS Lewis
When you lose the capacity to dream, you lose the capacity to love, and the energy to love is lost.
— Pope Francis
My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.
— George Bernard Shaw
Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.
— George Bernard Shaw
One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.
— Henry David Thoreau
To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.
— John Donne
The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.
— John Piper