Quotes Tagged "desire"

When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love

Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.

Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long. Good things come to those who wait.

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

She leaned forward and caught at his hand, pressing it between her own. The touch was like white fire through his veins. He could not feel her skin only the cloth of her gloves, and yet it did not matter. You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.

A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement