Quotes about sexual desire

It's like glimpsing a beautiful woman for just a moment in the back seat of a limousine - she looks even more beautiful than she really is because you know she's not yours, can never be yours.

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

Does anyone go to the grave satisfied? The satisfaction can't exist as long as there's one itch left to scratch. And I don't care who you are, there's always an itch.

There isn't one thing in the world hot and hard as knowing there's someone waiting, coming, pressing, wanting you.

Did she know what it was for a man to come to that point in his life when he found it impossible to touch the body of his own wife? To look at it; and to feel nothing. Not to desire it, at all, when the flesh was inert and dead and meaningless? To have the act of love become (with one's own wife) the most meaningless of all acts?

Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together. (p12, "No Name Woman")

“Hormones are everything, Turpin,” she said to the bird on her shoulder. “Brains are nice, and looks are nice, and logic’s even nicer; but hormones run the show. For everyone, even for me and you.”

Desire, she realized, was a thick fog that could completely obscure reality.

He was an addiction she didn’t want to be free of. And the more she had of him, the more she craved.

But we seldom spoke of sex, for starving men dream of food, not women, and our bodies were generally too tired to lust.

Sexual desire has to be dead as a doornail before a man and a woman can be genuinely at peace in a platonic relationship.

Everyone wants something, Alayne. And when you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.