Desire Quotes

Was our intimacy paid for in the wrong currency? Or is intimacy the desired product no matter where you find it, how you acquire it, what you pay for it, black market, grey market, taxed, untaxed, under the table, over the counter.

~ André Aciman

Desire isn't lack, it's surplus energy - a claustrophobia inside your skin -.

~ Chris Kraus

It is possible there are some things you want so badly that you will change your life to make them happen.

~ Elizabeth Wein

Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire,(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices

~ John N. Gray

Desires are very cunning and complex. You are frustrated, but not because of needs. You are frustrated because of desires. And if desires take too much of your energy you will be unable to fulfill your needs also, because who is there to fulfill them? You are moving into the future; you are thinking of the future; your mind is dreaming. Who is there to fulfill ordinary needs of the day? You are not there. And you would like to remain hungry but reach the horizon. You would like to postpone needs so that the whole energy moves towards the desire. But in the end, you find that the desire is not fulfilled, and because needs have been neglected, in the end you are just a ruin. And the time that is lost cannot be regained; you cannot go back.

~ Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

There is a story told of one old wise man, whose name was Mencius. He was a follower of Confucius and he died when he was very, very old. Somebody asked him: If you were given life again, how will you start it? Said Mencius: I will pay more attention to my needs and less attention to my desires. And this realisation will come to you also. But it always comes very late and then life is no more in your hands. If you were given life again....

~ Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Needs can be fulfilled, but desires cannot be. Desire is a need gone mad. Needs are simple, they come from nature; desires are very complex they don’t come from nature. They are created by the mind. Needs are moment to moment, they are created out of life itself. Desires are not moment to moment, they are always for the future. They are not created by life itself, they are projected by the mind. Desires are projections, they are not really needs. This is the first thing to be understood, and the deeper you understand, the better.

~ Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

The person with an itch can't understand why everyone isn't scratching.

~ Marty Rubin

I want your scent to intoxicate my passions to the point where lust is merely a word, dancing upon our flames of desire...

~ Virginia Alison

Lust? I have no desire to incite lust in anyone.Veliss turned to her with a quizzical expression, her smile suddenly genuine. Then I'm afraid you're in for a lifetime of disappointment.

~ Anthony Ryan

People shouldn't question their desires. They should do what they want.

~ Marty Rubin

In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, when it belongs to a tomorrow that yesterday would have killed had I had my way.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Part those sheetslike holy watersand I will worship you skinlike a born-againbeliever.

~ Tyler Knott Gregson

To delight is to desire.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

And yet, about two weeks after his arrival, all I wanted every night was for him to leave his room, not via its front door, but through the French windows on our balcony. I wanted to hear his window open, hear his espadrilles on the balcony, and then the sound of my own window, which was never locked, being pushed open as he’d step into my room after everyone had gone to bed, slip under my covers, undress me without asking, and after making me want him more than I thought I could ever want another living soul, gently, softly, and, with the kindness one Jew extends to another, work his way into my body, gently and softly, after heeding the words I’d been rehearsing for days now, Please, don’t hurt me, which meant, Hurt me all you want.

~ André Aciman

Desires are only a problem when the means to fulfill them are not available.

~ Marty Rubin

I want his eyes to stop looking at me like that, and at the same time, I have always wanted to be looked at just like that. Now, when I look into the brown depths of his eyes… I feel desired. I feel confident.I feel free.I feel like a woman.

~ Anna B. Doe

Anger or rage (mênis, thumos, orgê) is an emotion, a mixture of belief and desire. It is not a somatic feeling, as nausea and giddiness are, though it is usually accompanied by such feelings – trembling and blushing, for example, and the sense of seeing red. It is, in Aristotle’s definition, ‘a desire, accompanied by pain, to take apparent revenge for apparent insult’.

~ C. D. C. Reeve

Do not, however, make the mistake of thinking that all desire is yearning.

~ Maggie Nelson

You are too young, I think, to understand yet the nature of desire. You know what it is to want, perhaps even to yearn, but true desire is something else entirely.

~ Augustus Rose

You will get when you deserve, not when you desire! So Accept Life and Live in the Now!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

If you have nothing left to want, then you just wait. Until there's nothing left to wait for.

~ Neil Gaiman

That was desire messing with physics: putting its finger on the record and then slowing it down, making sure you heard every word spoken, and memorized it.

~ Heather O'neill

Ladies, I think I speak for the majority of us on the face of the planet when I say we all have that guy who’s grown on us like a f*cking fungus. You know the kind I’m talking about--maybe he was your high school teacher or best friend’s dad--some piece of man candy so hot and edible that no matter what you do, you can’t outrun the pull he has on you.

~ Kellie Hart

Mythology and religion are relevant and remarkable, as they each represent imaginative truths – projections of human beings innermost desires – intermixed with fragments of factual reality.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

If those who cause destruction have come to be ‘newsworthy’, and those who heal the devastation of that destruction have come to be less than ‘noteworthy’, has our thirst to be entertained become the truly destructive thing?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I had shelved expectations of another kiss, the intensity of not kissing now worked almost as well—the proximity and denial.

~ Olivia Sudjic

Let us not still our anger against indifference and inattention and let us not glitziness, superciliousness and mumbo jumbo slither into our thinking and our actions, if we don’t want our conscience to be backfired on. (“Twilight of desire”)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Ah, desire. Such a poisonous thing.

~ Roshani Chokshi

I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire.

~ Marguerite Yourcenar

Eternity is pure and knows to give you what you desire … You have to be clear what you ask for, or else you’ll get what you deserve.

~ Sandeep Sahajpal

...it's better to wake up amid the pangs of desire than amid those of remorse.

~ Amin Maalouf

Johnathan had known he wouldn't be able to simply shut off his thoughts and go to sleep. His entire body - everything he could feel, at least - was like a tightly coiled spring.

~ Lyn Ducoty

Johnathan had known he wouldn't be able to simply shut off his thoughts and go to sleep. His entire body - everything he could feel, at leas- was like a tightly coiled spring.

~ Lyn Ducoty

Johnathan had known he wouldn't be able to simply shut off his thoughts and go to sleep. His entire body - everything he could feel, at leastleast like a tightly coiled spring.

~ Lyn Ducoty

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. The desire and ability to press on has and always will solve the problems of the human race and divide those who achieve from those who might have been.

~ Jeffrey Fry

Distortion is part of desire. We always change the things we want.

~ Siri Hustvedt

I know, but he must have felt it that way, that evil was an emptiness, a lack of something, not a presence.'He turned his head fast and looked at me. 'That's what desire is, isn't it? The lack of something.

~ Siri Hustvedt

There can be no god without desire.

~ David Vann

It displeases me to have some creature think that he can foresee and profit from my desire, automatically adapting himself to what he supposes to be my taste.

~ Marguerite Yourcenar