Desire Quote by A.S. Byatt

“Sensuality, as long as it is straightforward did not repel him, but this derived sensuality - the sort that classes a mistress among motor-cars…

— E.M. Forster

“Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like favor, to those most deserving of it”

— Cassandra Clare

“Along with romantic love, she was introduced to another–physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of thought. Both originated in envy,…

— Toni Morrison

Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less favourable to…

— Edward Gibbon

“Is love a passionate embrace, where you grab but cannot taste. your lustfull urge will surely replace, that bitter sweet pleasure that only leads…

— Pierre Blundell

“The hopeful fancy of a man toward a woman was nothing more than a reason to intercept his lust to prove better than someone…

— Justin Donner

“People fear sensuality simply because they don't know its actual purpose. But, please, don't be ignorant my friend: Sensuality was NOT intended to make…

— Lebo Grand

“La quête d'un homme est indigne de l'amour, on ne cherche pas l'amour véritable, on le trouve.”

— Monique LaRue

“Looking at the turmoil of life from this standpoint we find all occupied with its want and misery, exerting all their strength in order…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“I had reached the point, at Balbec, of regarding the pleasure of playing with a troop of girls as less destructive of the spiritual…

— Marcel Proust

Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.

— Henry Fielding

After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the…

— Hannah More