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

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

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.

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.

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

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

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

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

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

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.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

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.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

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

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.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

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

I can resist everything except temptation.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

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

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

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

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

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

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.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

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.

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

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

Desire is the essence of a man.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

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

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

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.

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

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

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

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

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