Desire Quote by Salman Rushdie Download Open image ““He stared into the fast-flowing waters and contemplated the tragedy of desire.”” — Salman Rushdie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire
“He was a consuming fire. His passion, his desires, all seemed to overtake the desires of those around him.” — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
“Finally something besides infatuation had focused him. He was no longer merely flowing water.” — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“Coming abruptly, and without giving me time to trace it accurately to its source among so many ideas of a very different kind, the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Thinking of her intriguing eyes staring into his, he was left speechless by the feeling of pure desire which shot right through his body… — Angel Sefer Copy Share Image
“and the river’s voice was full of longing, full of smarting woe, full of insatiable desire.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He’d never liked the ocean, the sense of the unknown beneath his feet, that something hungry and full of teeth might be waiting to… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“Underneath the longing and the fever of anticipation; there was a need. He needed her to do this to him, for him . It… — Alex Morgan Copy Share Image
“He had yet to discover what destroyed that desire. But he did not dwell on it. He thought rather of whatever had happened to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“As he looked at her, she felt that flood of restlessness that she now knew was called desire.” — Shelly Thacker Copy Share Image
“It was another one of his enigmatic brainteasers that he never elaborated on. I should have pressed for more, but I was too busy… — Jodi Ellen Malpas Copy Share Image
“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was preparing, the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image