Body Quote by Iris Murdoch

“Humans, in short, desire something both unknown to them and inaccessible to the strategies of acquisition that desire sets in motion. We are creatures…

— Gil Bailie

“Some feelings are rooted too strongly in the body to exist without it, and this one, desire, is one of them.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find that ultimately…

— Desmond Tutu

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

— Albert Einstein

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.

— William James

At the core of my work there is this eternal back-and-forth between being confined to one's own individuality and that longing to be part…

— Beat Streuli

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for…

— Marcel Proust

There's something in our makeup and in our bodies that really wants to luxuriate more in just the joy of being alive and not…

— Elizabeth Lesser

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

— Eric Hoffer

“I’ve discovered that, given a seemingly impossible choice between having the person without the feeling, or the feeling without the person, in the deepest…

— Rachelle Rogers

“Our desires interweave with one another; and in the confusion of existence, it is seldom that a joy is promptly paired with the desire…

— Marcel Proust

“The harmony of two bodies expressed in this single touch, bridging their differences and bending their moral reserve, was as powerful and wild as…

— Peter Nadas