The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

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 surgi...

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

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

I desire to be with you. I miss you. I feel lonely when I can't see you. I am obsessed with you, fascinated by you, infatuated with you. I hunger for ...

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

Good things come to those who wait.

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, and when I got it...

I am all for curses and superstition, but there's a point at which they start getting in the way. That point had arrived.