# Quotes about sexual desire - Quotes: 48 - Authors: 41 - Broader topic: [Quotes about sex](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sex.md) - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.json ## Quotes > 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. [Stephen King](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king.md) · [The Langoliers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-langoliers.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-langoliers/its-like-glimpsing.md) Topics: [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time. [Jane Smiley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley.md) · [The Age of Grief](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley/the-age-of-grief.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley/the-age-of-grief/there-is-something.md) Topics: [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > 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. [Steve Toltz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-toltz.md) · [A Fraction Of The Whole](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-toltz/a-fraction-of-the-whole.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-toltz/a-fraction-of-the-whole/does-anyone-go-to-the.md) Topics: [death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > There isn't one thing in the world hot and hard as knowing there's someone waiting, coming, pressing, wanting you. [Tim Winton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton.md) · [The Shepherd's Hut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut.md) · p. 199 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/there-isnt-one.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > 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? [Alfred Hayes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alfred-hayes.md) · [My Face for the World to See](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alfred-hayes/my-face-for-the-world-to-see.md) · p. 40 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alfred-hayes/my-face-for-the-world-to-see/did-she-know.md) Topics: [marriage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage.md), [indifference](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/indifference.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > 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") [Maxine Hong Kingston](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston.md) · [The Woman Warrior](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston/the-woman-warrior.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston/the-woman-warrior/attraction-eludes-control.md) Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > “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.” [Charles Sheffield](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield.md) · [Proteus Unbound](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/proteus-unbound.md) · p. 285 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/proteus-unbound/hormones-are-everything.md) Topics: [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > Desire, she realized, was a thick fog that could completely obscure reality. [Steve Perry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-perry.md) · [The Vastalimi Gambit](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-perry/the-vastalimi-gambit.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-perry/the-vastalimi-gambit/desire-she-realized.md) Topics: [reality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reality.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > He was an addiction she didn’t want to be free of. And the more she had of him, the more she craved. [John Marrs](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-marrs.md) · [The One](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-marrs/the-one.md) · p. 308 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-marrs/the-one/he-was-an-addiction.md) Topics: [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md), [addiction](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/addiction-2.md) > But we seldom spoke of sex, for starving men dream of food, not women, and our bodies were generally too tired to lust. [Wilfred Thesiger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilfred-thesiger.md) · [Arabian Sands](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilfred-thesiger/arabian-sands.md) · p. 110 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilfred-thesiger/arabian-sands/but-we-seldom.md) Topics: [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md), [hunger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hunger.md) > Sexual desire has to be dead as a doornail before a man and a woman can be genuinely at peace in a platonic relationship. [Susan Howatch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-howatch.md) · [The Wheel Of Fortune](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-howatch/the-wheel-of-fortune.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-howatch/the-wheel-of-fortune/sexual-desire-has.md) Topics: [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > Everyone wants something, Alayne. And when you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him. [George RR Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin.md) · [A Storm of Swords](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords/everyone-wants-something.md) Topics: [manipulation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/manipulation.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > What we want is not always what we get. [George RR Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin.md) · [A Storm of Swords](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords/what-we-want.md) Topics: [disappointment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/disappointment.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > All she felt was pity, and pity was death to desire. [George RR Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin.md) · [A Storm of Swords](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords/all-she-felt.md) Topics: [compassion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compassion.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > You should have learned by now, none of us get the things we want. [George RR Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin.md) · [A Clash of Kings](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings/you-should-have.md) Topics: [disappointment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/disappointment.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > It is curious to imagine these people of the world, busy in thought, turning their eyes towards the countless spheres that shine above us, and making them reflect the only images their minds contain. The man who lives but in the breath of princes, has nothing his sight but stars for courtiers' breasts. The envious man beholds his neighbours' honours even in the sky; to the money-hoarder, and the mass of worldly folk, the whole great universe above glitters with sterling coin—fresh from the mint—stamped with the sovereign's head—coming always between them and heaven, turn where they may. So do the shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed. [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [Barnaby Rudge](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/barnaby-rudge.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/barnaby-rudge/it-is-curious.md) Topics: [greed](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/greed.md), [jealousy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/jealousy.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > The closer they come to the object of desire the more reluctant they are to grasp it. The search is the thing. The process is the purpose. The final mystery can only be anticlimactic. The story is ended. [Ian McDonald](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-mcdonald.md) · [The Dervish House](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-mcdonald/the-dervish-house.md) · p. 207 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-mcdonald/the-dervish-house/the-closer-they.md) Topics: [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > Nature , or the body itself, serves as a capable guide. But this subtle guidance goes unheard by most people because of the clamor caused by desire and by the activity of the discriminating mind. [Masanobu Fukuoka](https://www.leafyquotes.com/masanobu-fukuoka.md) · [The One-Straw Revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/masanobu-fukuoka/the-one-straw-revolution.md) · p. 143 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/masanobu-fukuoka/the-one-straw-revolution/nature-or-the.md) Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need. [David Gemmell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell.md) · [Quest for Lost Heroes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/quest-for-lost-heroes.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/quest-for-lost-heroes/we-are-full.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [cynicism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cynicism.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible. [Barbara W. Tuchman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/barbara-w-tuchman.md) · [A Distant Mirror](https://www.leafyquotes.com/barbara-w-tuchman/a-distant-mirror.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/barbara-w-tuchman/a-distant-mirror/economic-man-and.md) Topics: [human nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > "You know, most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction." > > "Ah, that might explain why I so often run into people who seem to dislike me." [Cassandra Clare](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare.md) · [City of Bones](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-bones.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-bones/you-know-most.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > The more you covet something, the more certain it is that you’ll lose it, and the more devastating the loss will be when it happens—which it will. (p. 216). [Geoff Dyer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/geoff-dyer.md) · [Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It](https://www.leafyquotes.com/geoff-dyer/yoga-for-people-who-cant-be-bothered-to-do-it.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/geoff-dyer/yoga-for-people-who-cant-be-bothered-to-do-it/the-more-you.md) Topics: [loss](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loss.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > "We can each sit and wait to die, from the very day of our births. Those of us who do not do so, choose to ask--and to answer--the two questions that define every conscious creature: What do I want? and What will I do to get it? Which are, finally, only one question: What is my will? Caine teaches us that the answer is always found within our own experience; our lives provide the structure of the question, and a properly phrased question contains its own answer." [Matthew Stover](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover.md) · [Blade of Tyshalle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/blade-of-tyshalle.md) · p. 472 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/blade-of-tyshalle/we-can-each.md) Topics: [free will](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/free-will.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > It is so much easier to covet what one hasn’t than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exists than about what doesn’t. [Max Beerbohm](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-beerbohm.md) · [Zuleika Dobson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-beerbohm/zuleika-dobson.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-beerbohm/zuleika-dobson/it-is-so-much.md) Topics: [gratitude](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/gratitude.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > He talked and talked, the kind of talking you do to stave off the inevitable physical desire. The kind of talk that only increases it. [Zadie Smith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zadie-smith.md) · [White Teeth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zadie-smith/white-teeth.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zadie-smith/white-teeth/he-talked-and.md) Topics: [conversation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conversation.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, > > And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire, > > Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves, > > So late emerged from, shall so soon expire. [Omar Khayyam](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam.md) · [Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/heavn-but-the.md) Topics: [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md), [hell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hell.md), [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md) > Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires? [J. M. Coetzee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee.md) · [Slow Man](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/slow-man.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/slow-man/can-desire-grow.md) Topics: [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > Why does love, even such love as he claims to practise, need the spectacle of beauty to bring it to life? What, in the abstract, do shapely legs have to do with love, or for that matter with desire? Or is that just the nature of nature, about which one does not ask questions? [J. M. Coetzee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee.md) · [Slow Man](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/slow-man.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/slow-man/why-does-love.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > My case rests on the rights of desire,’ he says. ‘On the god who makes even the small birds quiver.’ [J. M. Coetzee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee.md) · [Disgrace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/disgrace.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/disgrace/my-case-rests.md) Topics: [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > To hold us in check when our desires grow immoderate. As long as our desires are moderate we have no need of laws. [J. M. Coetzee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee.md) · [Foe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/foe.md) · p. 54 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/foe/to-hold-us-in-check.md) Topics: [law](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/law.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md), [moderation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/moderation.md) > The lustful who punish beauty would be wiser to control lust. [Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md) · [The Fresco](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-fresco.md) · p. 181 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-fresco/the-lustful-who.md) Topics: [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md), [self-control](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/self-control.md) > There is no innocence so deep as to veil the urgencies of the flesh from one’s own youthful awareness. [Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md) · [Beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/beauty.md) · p. 404 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/beauty/there-is-no-innocence.md) Topics: [youth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/youth.md), [innocence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/innocence.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up. [Octavia E. Butler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler.md) · [Imago](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/imago.md) · p. 649 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/imago/helpless-lust-and.md) Topics: [growing up](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/growing-up.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > In my experience, men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire. [Dan Brown](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-brown.md) · [The Da Vinci Code](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-brown/the-da-vinci-code.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-brown/the-da-vinci-code/in-my-experience.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter. [Tom Robbins](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins.md) · [Skinny Legs and All](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/skinny-legs-and-all.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/skinny-legs-and-all/of-the-seven.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [sin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sin.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human. [R. Scott Bakker](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-scott-bakker.md) · [The Warrior-Prophet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-scott-bakker/the-warrior-prophet.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-scott-bakker/the-warrior-prophet/love-is-lust.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [hope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > Lust is negligible when absent. [E.M. Forster](https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster.md) · [Maurice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster/maurice.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster/maurice/lust-is-negligible.md) Topics: [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. [John Fowles](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles.md) · [The Aristos](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/the-aristos.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/the-aristos/most-marriages-recognize.md) Topics: [marriage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > Women believe—or at least often pretend to believe—that all our tenderness for them springs from desire; that we love them when we have not for a time enjoyed them, and dismiss them when we are sated, or to express it more precisely, exhausted. There is no truth in this idea, though it may be made to appear true. When we are rigid with desire, we are apt to pretend a great tenderness in the hope of satisfying that desire; but at no other time are we in fact so liable to treat women brutally, and so unlikely to feel any deep emotion but one. [Gene Wolfe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe.md) · [The Claw Of The Conciliator](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe/the-claw-of-the-conciliator.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe/the-claw-of-the-conciliator/women-believe-or-at-least.md) Topics: [women](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women.md), [men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/men.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > "I love you, Dominique. I love you so much that nothing can matter to me—not even you. Can you understand that? Only my love—not your answer. Not even your indifference. I've never taken much from the world. I haven't wanted much. I've never really wanted anything. Not in the total, undivided way, not with the kind of desire that becomes an ultimatum, 'yes' or 'no,' and one can't accept the 'no' without ceasing to exist. That's what you are to me. But when one reaches that stage, it's not the object that matters, it's the desire. Not you, but I. The ability to desire like that. Nothing less is worth feeling or honoring. And I've never felt that before. Dominique, I've never known how to say 'mine' about anything. Not in the sense I say it about you. Mine. Did you call it a sense of life as exaltation? You said that. You understand. I can't be afraid. I love you, Dominique—I love you—you're letting me say it now—I love you." [Ayn Rand](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand.md) · [The Fountainhead](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead.md) · p. 538 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead/i-love-you.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god? [Ursula K. Le Guin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin.md) · [Lavinia](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/lavinia.md) · p. 66 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/lavinia/is-it-the.md) Topics: [god](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > There’s nothing more fascinating than a girl who won’t have sex with you. [Max Barry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry.md) · [Syrup](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/syrup.md) · p. 57 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/syrup/theres-nothing-more.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. [Jean Baudrillard](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-baudrillard.md) · [Cool Memories](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-baudrillard/cool-memories.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-baudrillard/cool-memories/there-is-no-aphrodisiac.md) Topics: [innocence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/innocence.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > She couldn't remember when her interest in him, in his mysteriousness, his silences, his power, had grown into fascination, but she knew the precise moment when fascination had sharpened into desire. [P.D. James](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james.md) · [A Certain Justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james/a-certain-justice.md) · p. 425 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james/a-certain-justice/she-couldnt-remember.md) Topics: [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > A woman you've endured such a gnawing of desire for, you can't help bearing a little grudge against, when the ache is gone. [John Hoyer Updike](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike.md) · [Rabbit at Rest](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-at-rest.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-at-rest/a-woman-youve.md) Topics: [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share. [Quentin Crisp](https://www.leafyquotes.com/quentin-crisp.md) · [The Naked Civil Servant](https://www.leafyquotes.com/quentin-crisp/the-naked-civil-servant.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/quentin-crisp/the-naked-civil-servant/i-take-it.md) Topics: [tolerance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tolerance.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > "That," said Wednesday, driving off, "is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones. Worm food. At night, you're rubbing yourself against worm food. No offense meant." [Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md) · [American Gods](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/american-gods.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/american-gods/that-said-wednesday.md) Topics: [death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death.md), [stupidity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stupidity.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md) > Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it. [Kingsley Amis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kingsley-amis.md) · [Lucky Jim](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kingsley-amis/lucky-jim.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kingsley-amis/lucky-jim/your-attitude-measures.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md)