Quotes about Desire

If God wants [my] company, musn't we say that God wants the company of all those who have made [me] to be [me]?

Treat what you don't have as nonexistent. Look at what you have, the things you value most, and think of how much you'd crave them if you didn't have them. But be careful. Don't feel such satisfaction that you start to overvalue them—that it would upset you to lose them.

Labour not as one to whom it is appointed to be wretched, nor as one that either would be pitied, or admired; but let this be thine only care and desire; so always and in all things to prosecute or to forbear, as the law of charity, or mutual society doth require.

O imagination, go away, I intreat thee by the gods, as thou didst come, for I want thee not. But thou art come according to thy old fashion. I am not angry with thee: only go away.

How cruel—to forbid people to want what they think is good for them. And yet that's just what you won't let them do when you get angry at their misbehavior. They're drawn toward what they think is good for them. —But it's not good for them. Then show them that. Prove it to them. Instead of losing your temper.

Sexual ecstasy is like death. It is one of the secrets of nature's wisdom.

for my own part I cannot cordially approve, I merely tolerate, a philosopher who talks of setting bounds to the desires. Is it possible for desire to be kept within bounds? It ought to be destroyed, uprooted altogether.

I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.

People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.

Last year I abstained this year I devour without guilt which is also an art

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?

If I thought this would never happen again I would die. But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.