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

Desire is the very essence of man.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

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

Men freely believe that which they desire.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Desire is the essence of a man.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I’ve already made up my mind that I have the victory.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.