#desire

The longer I lived, the longer it would be until I saw him alive again, until I could taste his new lips and run my fingers through his new hair. We could be young and beautiful again . . . ↗

— Chelsie Shakespeare

#desire #dreams #love #meant-to-be #past-lives

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#man #other #rarely #than #woman

We provided complete protection to witnesses - right of attorney, right of record, right to cross-examine, and open hearing if they desired. Only Mr. Lane asked for an open hearing. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#attorney #complete #desired #hearing #lane

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#business #desire #dominating #hit #home

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#fulfillment #increases #postponed

Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#longing #love #love

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. ↗

— William Blake

#self-control #marriage

Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predicatable of calamities. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#fidelity #love

Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks. ↗

— Carla Bruni

#desire #love #men #women #love

Blake inspires instant, tender Blakelust in everyone he meets. All of his beauties are meant to be touched, and he likes to be touched. ↗

— John Valentine

#lust #male-beauty #sensuality #sex-appeal #beauty