Quotes about Desire

Don't you ever mind, she asked suddenly, not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

I want - I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that -categories like that- won't exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter.

The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands - and you hated the things it asked of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference. That was what I'd never known before - and it's better than anything I've known.

The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder—the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?

Isn't it natural that I should belittle all the things I can't offer you?

She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew about them.

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

There was such love as she had dreamed, and she meant to go on believing in it and cherishing the thought that she was worthy of it.

It had evidently not occurred to her as yet that those who consent to share the bread of adversity may want the whole cake of prosperity for themselves.

Undine's white and gold bedroom, with sea-green panels and old rose carpet, looked along Seventy-second Street toward the leafless tree-tops of the Central Park. She went to the window, and drawing back its many layers of lace gazed eastward down the long brownstone perspective. Beyond the Park lay Fifth Avenue—and Fifth Avenue was where she wanted to be!

It was an observation they had made in her earliest youth—Undine never wanted anything long, but she wanted it "right off." And until she got it the house was uninhabitable.

Not for the world would he have made a significant to her, though it seemed to him that his life hung on her next gesture.