# Quotes about desire

- Quotes: 9
- Authors: 6
- Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire

## Quotes

> I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.

[Erica Jong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong.md) · [Fear of Flying](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/i-want-you.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire.md)

> Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love...

[Erica Jong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong.md) · [Fear of Flying](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/underneath-it-all.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire.md)

> Some say the world will end in fire,
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> Some say in ice.
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> From what I've tasted of desire
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> I hold with those who favor fire.
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> But if it had to perish twice,
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> I think I know enough of hate
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> To say that for destruction ice
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> Is also great
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> And would suffice.

[Robert Frost](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost.md) · [New Hampshire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/some-say-the.md)

Topics: [hatred](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred.md), [desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire.md)

> I'm crazy enough to believe that the happiest man on earth is the man with the fewest needs.

The Colossus of Maroussi · p. 133

Topics: [happiness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness.md), [desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire.md)

> At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone. The moment I decided I'd rather be alone and not have anyone telling me their problems, everybody I'd never even seen before in my life started running after me to tell me things I'd just decided I didn't think it was a good idea to hear about. As soon as I became a loner in my own mind, that's when I got what you might call a "following." As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Topics: [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md), [desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire.md)

> He would have given up everything -- education, comfort, luxurious life and his powerful position as manager -- if only just for one day he could have been the humblest of these poor devils under him and be free with his own body and be oafish enough to beat his wife and take his pleasure with the wives of his neighbors. He found himself wishing he were dying of starvation too, and that his empty belly were twisted with pains that made his brain reel, for perhaps that might deaden this relentless grief! Oh to live like a brute, possessing nothing but freedom to roam in the cornfields with the ugliest and most revolting haulage girl and possess her!

Germinal

Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire.md)

> The only ambition of this great powerful frame was to do nothing, to grovel in idleness and satiation from hour to hour. He wanted to eat well, sleep well, to abundantly satisfy his passions, without moving from his place, without running the risk of the slightest fatigue.

Thérèse Raquin

Topics: [desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire.md)

> He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

[Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md) · [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer.md) · p. 32 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/he-had-discovered.md)

Topics: [desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire.md)

> To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

[Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md) · [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/to-promise-not.md)

Topics: [desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire.md)