Desire

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms .

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation .

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired .

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable .

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.

The contented person finds rest in death, and for the greedy person, death puts an end to his long list of desires.

The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.

When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.

The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives

It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.

Poor is the man who desires a lot.

To enjoy, to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

Lust is the cause of generation.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.