The appetites of the body were private battles.

It’s a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that...

I’ve never been married and I’ve no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

She doesn’t want me to leave, and she doesn’t want me to stay. That’s a double helping of Doesn’t Want Me, and one big I’m Not Hungry back at her.

Happiness is there where wants and needs are small, but the desire to give is big.

The first time I saw Agatha she gave me a double wink. Most men might have interpreted it as a blink, but I saw it as a sexually developed ambidextrous double wink. Such talent! Such...

If you want me, you’d better hurry. Act now, supplies are limited.

I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

When we say forever, we are talking about a desire.

I am the Cheese Cube of Desire. Sometimes you’ve just got to live dangerously.

By using repetition, images, and other strategies – all of which communicate truths in ways that are not cognitively or propositional – marketing forms us into the kind of persons who want to buy beer...

I don’t want the finer things in life, like preserves of jam and thick soft quilts, until I get what I need: the machinery to make that stuff for me.

Thirst is a language even the grass understands.

If we don’t currently have what we so desire, then we must become a different person. Beliefs and thought patterns is the road to victory.

It’s a slow sultry song. She opens her mouth and what comes out can only be described as dripping with sex. The climax of the song comes and the college boys are cat calling her...

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

How shall we distinguish that whichis good in pleasure from that which is not good?”Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is thepleasure of the bee to gather honey...

Among all the methods by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are few so efficacious as the great gust of agitation which, now and then,...

I got my heart’s desire, and there my troubles began.

I saw a dead bird flying through a broken sky. I heard it, and it said, “The world will never understand.

It always rains on the unloved-wet dreams-a fishing expedition-she kisses wyverns (the disneyland analogy)-dinner etiquette and chocolate lovers-desire swears by the first circle-“things are changing”-what can possibly go wrong?

On the third day Vera said:’I love your body because it is beautiful. But I do not know your soul. I do not know whether there is a soul. Nor is it necessary for me...

My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.

…Refusing to feel desire is the only thing more painful than failing to get what you want, and that learning not to yearn, far from preventing disappointment, ultimately guarantees it.

The skin is a variety of contingency: in it, through it, with it, the world and my body touch each other, the feeling and the felt, it defines their common edge. Contingency means common tangency:...

She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. ‘Time’ for her isn’t something to fight against....

Unspoken words between you and I,Present in the eyes of knowing,Lost in the realm of unforeseen beauty,I am yours.

Her beauty was enough to get her into most any situation she desired and her tongue—sharp and venomous—was enough to get her out again.

Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he...

Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

My God, Sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal and lures me to its evil self by the sight of some delightful good in the...

When you’re looking for a relationship, the process weakens you. you feel you have to bear with whatever the other person wants. Each of the people I have met has made this a little more...

Desire is when you work hard to achieve something. For an achievable object, its more about making a sudden decision.

When I first met him, he was everything I wanted to be, but over time, he showed me how I wanted to be myself, and that was how I fell in love with him.

Your heart will always go where your mind wanders.

A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization. Everyone is hypnotized by production and comfort — sewage system, elevator, bathroom, washing machine. This state of affairs, which arose out of a struggle against poverty, overshoots...

Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part.

The only difference between success and failure is Lack of Vision

I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

With total rapture and delight he talks about the birds which he can see from his prison window, and which he had never noticed before, when he was a minister. Now of course, after he’s...

A boy with his girlfriend or a husband with his wife can be happy forever in their locked relationship only if he loves her as much as she loves solely to herself always and this...

Her half-closed eyes were moist and tremulous and languid with desire. I began to drink love from them with thirsty kisses; which revived her spirits a litle.

You’re driving me crazy, Blaire. Insane, baby. Fucking insane,

Most days, I’ve got this impermanence thing down just great. It doesn’t bother me; what’s to bother? Most days, I sit comfortably with the knowledge that I’ll die alone, and I feel nothing so strongly...

She had a smile that could put a froth on a cup of coffee, and she knew it.

But every spiteful word she ever wrote him was effortless love clenched in her fists. Her heart screaming for stability in this fiery game of desire.

He looked at me, and then looked away quickly.But I could tell he was interested.I think my tight t-shirt might have had something to do with it. And the way I was pushing my breasts...