desire Quotes

“I wished to be loved by another . . . But I desire no man’s pity.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

topic:love desire

“She found a dark satisfaction in pain—because that pain came from him.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

topic:love pain desire

“I mean, at some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you’ll look back down and see that you floated away, too.”

― John Green, Paper Towns

topic:reality desire

“Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

topic:memory desire

“I have already enjoyed too much: give me something to desire.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

topic:desire

“Can one desire too much of a good thing?”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

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“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn’t afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they’re seventeen.”

― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border

topic:youth desire

“When you get used to that kind of life—of never having anything you want—then you stop knowing what it is you want.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

topic:life desire want

“To make oneself object, to make oneself passive, is very different from being a passive object: a woman in love is neither asleep nor a corpse; there is a surge in her that ceaselessly falls and rises: it is this surge that creates the spell that...”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

topic:love woman desire

“Things are sweeter when they're lost.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

topic:desire loss

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