Desire Quote by David Foster Wallace

“Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her love but…

— Honoré de Balzac

“If the one thing was right, everything elses must surely be right; the thing was axiomatic. It was true that happiness had often to…

— Dorothy Sayers

“In the joy of her gratified desires she wanted to make everybody about her happy. If only everyone would do as she wished she…

— Edith Wharton

“When a woman is romantically subdued, all she does at that moment is under the influence of her desires.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did nothing to…

— Marilynne Robinson

“In a wife I would desire / What in whores is always found / The lineaments of gratified desire.”

— William Blake

“thrilled by the dark look of desire. She thrived on men’s desire for her. It made the sexual high that much greater”

— Jasmine Haynes

“I longed for it in that excruciating way one has of romanticizing the life she didn’t choose.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times--when the odds were so high against personal happiness--to find love was miraculous,…

— Bernard Malamud

“and the Prospect of that continued Bliss she expected to share with him, took from her all Remorse for having engaged in an Affair…

— Eliza Haywood

“If you imagine that I have the smallest desire to receive your hand as a reward for having performed a difficult task to your…

— Georgette Heyer

“Sometimes it strengthens a marriage to see the worst and find the sweetness of happiness later.”

— Christine Merrill