Desire Quote by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

“...another comber of far pleasure followed the first, for his books came suddenly before his eyes, row upon row of volumes, row upon priceless…

— Mervyn Peake

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

— Samuel Johnson

Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way…

— Caroline Pratt

In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on…

— Clark Ashton Smith

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

— Walter Benjamin

And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what…

— Edgar Allan Poe

She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already…

— Julianna Baggott

“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so…

— Daphne du Maurier

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

— Walt Whitman

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to…

— Honore de Balzac

Steadying herself with both hands on the table, she managed an awkward bow… 'Your Highness,' she stammered, head lowered... The prince flinched and cast…

— Marissa Meyer

The one piece of advice I would give to any actor is, if you want to go out on the street without being recognised,…

— Daniel Radcliffe