Quotes about Desire
I am so angry with myself because I cannot do what I should like to do, and at such a moment one feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well, utterly helpless.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.
- Virginia Woolf
There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.
- Virginia Woolf
Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get
- WP Kinsella
I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.
- Muhammad Ali
When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way.
- Brian Tracy
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, "I want a Dad." But you won't abide in anyone.
- Judah Smith
I took you to an intimate restaurant, then to a suggestive movie. There's nothing left to talk about, unless it's horizontally.
- Olivia Newton-John
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.
- CS Lewis
I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.
- Graham Greene