Quotes about Desire
When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.
— Ernest Hemingway
You'll ache. And you're going to love it. It will crush you. And you're still going to love all of it.
— Ernest Hemingway
We have very primative emotions. It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.
— Ernest Hemingway
Where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. That was where we could go.
— Ernest Hemingway
And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.
— Ernest Hemingway
You're beautiful. You walk wonderfully and if I were here and saw you now for the first time I'd be in love with you. If I saw you for the first time everything would turn over inside of me and I'd ache right through my chest.
— Ernest Hemingway
When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me.
— Ernest Hemingway
You want everything so much and when you get it it's over and you don't give a damn.
— Ernest Hemingway
Don't you believe I love you? Don't know how I can make you believe. I didn't want to kiss you goodbye--that was the trouble--I wanted to kiss you goodnight. […] Of course I love you. I love you all the time. […] I'd like to hold you and kiss you so that you wouldn't doubt whether I wanted to or not.
— Ernest Hemingway
What do you want? Everything. I want everything and I will take whatever I get.
— Ernest Hemingway
He was fairly happy, except that, like many people living in Europe, he would rather have been in America, and he had discovered writing.
— Ernest Hemingway
I loved the country so that I was happy as you are after you have been with a woman that you really love, when, empty, you feel it welling up again and there it is and you can never have it all and yet what there is, now, you can have, and you want more and more, to have, and be, and live in, to possess now again for always, for that long, sudden-ended always; making time stand still, sometimes so very still that afterwards you wait to hear it move,and it is slow in starting.
— Ernest Hemingway