Quotes about Desire

He drew her very tenderly close and their lips met like starved hearts.

he found, as the new century gathered headway, that his thirst for gayety grew stronger.

Almost painfully he took his eyes from her.

the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody

He used to think that he wanted to be goos, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.

I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't repeat the past.' 'Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!' He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

She had been kissed once and made love to six times.

Cloaked by the erotic darkness she exhausted the future quickly, with all the eventualities that might lead up to a kiss, but with the kiss itself as blurred as a kiss in pictures.

He desired her and, so far as her virginal emotions went, she contemplated a surrender with equanimity. Yet she knew she would forget him half an hour after she left him - like an actor kissed in a picture.

He was in an eddy again, a deep, lethargic gulf, without desire to work or write, love or dissipate.

He wanted a world that was like walking through rain

Not only for that night but for the days and weeks that followed his books were to be but furniture and his friends only people who lived and walked in a nebulous outer world from which he was trying to escape.