The desire for love is universal but that has never meant…

“Because I didn't move here to fall in love. The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it's worthy of respect.…

— Rachel Kushner

Desire for love is a universal human drive.

— Senoraroy

“Slow and unarguable, the old desire for love, for a close-shared life, struck at him, not with Kathy, not with Anne, not with any…

— Laura Z. Hobson

Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.

— Philippa Gregory

Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love.

— Ibn Arabi

“To put it in a rather vulgar way, I had been dreaming about love in the firm belief that I could not be loved,…

— Yukio Mishima

“And I, too, am the same… only there is no love in my heart, or desire for love, no interest in work, not contentment…

— Leo Tolstoy

Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.

— Vernon Howard

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

— Anonymous

Next to love is the desire for love.

— Wallace Stevens

The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage…

— Marianne Williamson

“There is a desire within each of us, in the deep center of ourselves that we call our heart. We were born with it,…

— Gerald May

And that is the trouble with all lovers: they want more love, because they don't understand that the real desire is not for more…

— Rajneesh

The boy with the thorn in his side behind the hatred there lies a murderous desire for love~

— Lindsey

“Children who feel that they are unloved can believe that there must be something very wrong about them which makes them unacceptable. The stinging…

— Susie Orbach