Quotes about Desire

Outwardly you keep the law with works out of fear of punishment or love of gain. Likewise you do everything without free desire and love of the law; you act out of aversion and force. You'd rather act otherwise if the law didn't exist. It follows, then, that you, in the depths of your heart, are an enemy of the law.

Christ also said, "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also" (Matthew 6:21). We pursue what we love. We talk about it because that is where our hearts and thoughts are. Augustine came right to the point when he said: "Whatever I love is my god.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.

care to explain, so he turned her into his arms and kissed her. When he pulled away, her eyes blinked open as if her lids were almost too heavy to hold up. "You really shouldn't kiss me like that, Rafe. I swear when you do it, I can't seem to think clearly." "Why don't you just relax and let me do the thinking for the both of us for a while?

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

I love you not because I need you, I need you because I love you.

Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.

People ask me if I am going on making cheesecake pictures now that I'm a star. My answer is that as long as there is a boy in Korea who wants a pinup of me, I'll go on posing for them.

Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again

All mankind loves a lover.

As the ocean is never full of water, so is the heart never full of love.