Quotes about Desire

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less.

Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

Most people'll run from their own mother to get to hug death by the neck. They cant wait to see him.