Desire

‎ Love is a madness produced by an unclassifiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

It's not at all uncommon to find a person's desires compelling him to go against his reason, and to see him cursing himself and venting his passion on the source of the compulsion within him. It's as if there were two warring factions, with passion fighting on the side of reason.

Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear; and yet that commonly is the case of kings.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall.

Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac.

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy.

Bait, n . A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.

It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

If man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles.

while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Sex is an emotion in motion.

Sex is every man’s loco spot.

I was wondering today what the religion of the country is— and all I could come up with was sex.

It is true I swim in a perpetual sea of sex but the actual excursions are fairly limited.

For flavor, Instant Sex will never supersede the stuff you had to peel and cook.

Sex is identical to comedy in that it involves timing.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means.

Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

the one that inspires all his deeds and designs, he would say, “I want to be praised.”