Desire Quote by Hermann Hesse

“they greet those who are cast down, and those in heart, those troubled adn those filled with desire, those who are overjoyed and those…

— Joseph Bédier

“There were three of these women, separated by short intervals of pain, remorse, and despair. When he and the last one had their final…

— Andre Dubus

“The very falsehood that stained her, was a proof how blindly she loved another--this dark, slight, elegant, handsome man--while he himself was rough, and…

— Elizabeth Gaskellbeth Gaskell

“She was the most loyal, forgiving, headstrong, passionate woman he’d ever met in his life, and he was madly in love with her”

— Jennifer Probst

“There was silence between them for moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to…

— Daphne du Maurier

“I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but base flattery,…

— Molière

“She had seen them in turmoil all round her--love, hatred, vengeance, treachery--she herself practically the pivot around which they raged. Out of the deadly…

— Baroness Orczy

“It was a struggle to not fall in love with a man who was determined to be decent to her when what she sought…

— Grace Burrowes

“Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men. They lived on their emotions. They only thought of their emotions. When they took…

— Oscar Wilde

“...she thought with pity of all the men and women who were not light-hearted when they loved, who were cold, who were reluctant, who…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Women, they were tricky business. A man had to step carefully lest he find himself in a pit of despair, longing after the one…

— T.A. Grey

“He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy; and that to the…

— Charles Dickens