Quotes about Desire

Well, there I was, 'way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care.

You see, I am fate," it shouted, "and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life.

She looks at him once more, with infinite longing, infinite sadness.

To hold a man a woman has to appeal to the worst in him. This sentence was the thesis of most of his bad nights, of which he felt this was to be one. His mind had already started to play variations on the subject. Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush - these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for the loss of his youth - bitter calomel under the thin sugar of love's exaltation.

I came out of a sort of experimental background, and I didn't ever really expect - or even desire - a career as a feature filmmaker.

I like hugging who I like to hug and I want to be hugged by whom I want to hug.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

Today's man of the world proclaims that sin, and his enterprising in sin, are a part of modern living, but it is not modern. It goes back to Adam and Eve - to desire and the temptation to know - to experience evil.

Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.