Top 72 Quotes About Desired Love
#1. I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.
Hanif Kureishi
#2. For while I destroyed his hopes, I did not satisfy my own desires. They were for ever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned.
Mary Shelley
#3. Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe.
Jean Rhys
#4. I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.
Ezra Pound
#5. The one who gets you is the one who makes you forget you ever desired anything as dull and ridiculous as perfection.
Carla Neggers
#6. Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
Michel De Montaigne
#8. Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.
Mark Twain
#9. To wake, and sleep, and know that one is loved; to hear, as I hear now, the whisper of a footfall; to feel the touch of hands; these things, above all else, are to be desired. I count myself fortunate, in that, for a little while, I have known them.
Keith Roberts
#10. This was wrong. Tony didn't want to have feelings. The sex was great. It was okay to want her, dominate her, and control her. It was not okay to want to be with her, please her, and love her. Yet every one of his senses desired Claire.
Aleatha Romig
#12. Emma hung up and hugged her pillow tight to her chest. He shouldn't be making her feel this special and desired. He was just a friend. Right, just a friend. She wasn't even fooling herself anymore.
Claire Matthews
#13. But perhaps she has given me the strength and the madness to write about the things that I once desired so long to put against the world.
J. Limbu
#14. Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly."
Robert Frost
Madelyn Hill
#16. Love is deserved, not desired.
Vikrmn
#17. He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.
Christopher Love
#18. He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#19. Because we have loved profoundly,
Because we have given much,
Because we have hoped passionately,
Because we have desired intensely,
We allow ourselves to be infinitely hurt.
Jess
#20. I never loved anyone else and never desired to. She was my companion, my lover, and my teacher.
Nick Bantock
#21. But they both agreed that it's always nice to know that your wife is desired by another man, although they wouldn't go any further than that.
Paulo Coelho
#22. Peace was the one thing that Max (Ernst) needed in order to paint, and love was the one thing I needed in order to live. As neither of us gave the other what he most desired, our union was doomed to failure.
Peggy Guggenheim
#23. justification by faith alone frees me to love my neighbor disinterestedly, for his or her own sake, as my sister or brother, not as the calculated means to my own desired ends.
Timothy George
#24. However, in fetishism the desired object is displaced; and in this context ("The Apparition" by Guy De Maupassant) it is the desiring object, so to speak. In other words, have we ever seen a boot in love with a fetishist?
Philippe Lejeune
#25. If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.
John Donne
#26. A man could only love her imperfectly, but God could give her the perfect love she desired. Lady Rose had learned to comfort her husband in his pain instead of expecting him to heal her own.
Melanie Dickerson
#27. She was lucky to be wanted not desired though, worse pain is the feeling of being unwanted in love.
Pushpa Rana
#28. True love is the only heart disease that is best left to "run on"
the only affection of the heart for which there is no help, and none desired.
Mark Twain
#29. I saw a dead bird flying through a broken sky. I heard it, and it said, The world will never understand.
Nadege Richards
#30. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
#31. That's the dream of sex, isn't it? That you will be liberated from the prison of the body by the body itself, at long last desired, its strange tongue understood.
Olivia Laing
#32. Yes. This. It was just what she needed, because here, held by him like this, her guilt, her regret, her fears ... all of it gave way to this heady, languid sensation of being desired and she didn't want it to stop.
Any of it.
Jill Shalvis
#33. The first right of every child is to be wanted, to be desired, to be planned for with an intensity of love that gives it its title to being.
Margaret Sanger
#34. Never fear to ask what you truly want. You will always get exactly what you desire.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#35. I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.
John Wesley
#36. Later, much later, as an adult woman, she wrote of her need to be loved, to be desired, as a ravenous monster with an exigent appetite living in a black hole within. Whatever love was thrown her way, the monster devoured it and left her with nothing.
Rabih Alameddine
#37. For deep love unsatisfied is the hell of noble hearts and a portion of the accursed, but love that is mirrored back more perfect from the soul of our desired doth fashion wings to lift us above ourselves, and makes us what we might be.
H. Rider Haggard
#38. You should have a kind heart because you are not just a so and so person,you are also an identity who is part of the almighty god,who above all likes kindness because,he is the bestower of all desired attributes but is benevolently looking for kindness from his creation
Jaspreet Kaur
#39. It was only that she wanted him to be happy, resenting, however, his inability to be so with things as they were, and never acknowledging that though she did want him to be happy, it was only in her own way and by some plan of hers for him that she truly desired him to be so.
Nella Larsen
#40. He desired her and, so far as her virginal emotions went, she contemplated a surrender with equanimity. Yet she knew she would forget him half an hour after she left him - like an actor kissed in a picture.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#41. He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.
Torquato Tasso
#42. Then he took her, and it seemed to O that it had been so long since he had that, subconsciously, she realized she had begun to doubt whether he really desired her any longer, and in his act she saw proof of love.
Pauline Reage
#43. I want to feel the victory of being desired by someone I once found desirable.
Rae Carson
#44. I desired to become a Christian, and prayed earnestly for the forgiveness of my sins. I felt a peace of mind resulting, and loved every one, feeling desirous that all should have their sins forgiven, and love Jesus as I did.
Ellen G. White
#45. There is an awkward silence that overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you meet them. It balances on the edge of unknown but always desired.
Carl Henegan
#46. A woman who is desired by someone else, even a love-starved coffinmaker, immediately becomes more precious than before. Man, as it happens, lives by relative rather than absolute values.
Erich Maria Remarque
#47. Sorrow is permitted human beings, but it is not to be desired if we would be like You, Lord God. For You, who love souls far more purely than we and feel a perfect pity for others, are wounded, yet without sorrow. How can we be like You in this?
Augustine Of Hippo
#49. The only thing I've loved is nothing at all. The only thing I've desired is what I couldn't even imagine. All I asked of life is that it go on by without my feeling it. All I demanded of love is that it never stop being a distant dream.
Fernando Pessoa
#51. I know you're going to find this hard to believe, but for some reason I don't understand, I actually like you ... most of the time. (Simone)
Well, you also love Jesse. Obviously your taste in men leaves a lot to be desired. (Xypher)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#52. I Might never find that love my heart has always desired, but I know I will succeed before I die.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#53. I always desired to marry someone who loves me for who I am. Someone, who does not love me just because I'm rich ... one who will love me and care for me till the end of time. And that man is you, Aryan
Rohit Sharma
#54. He smashed all my reservations that he couldn't give me what I desired and proved love could change anyone - no matter how destroyed.
Pepper Winters
#55. ... it was strange how afraid he was of her answer, even though he knew she desired him. Desire and love were two different things.
Sweat was damp on his skin, fear tight in his chest.
Love me.
Emily Gee
#56. But you want a placid pond, a glassy surface to reflect your own casual desires and nothing more. You will never fathom the depths of my savage ocean.
Sherri Gaillard
#57. To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
John Berger
#58. Destiny to some people is a preconceived notion as a design of blind faith, while in fact destiny is a constitution of endowed efforts in an attempt to steer toward a desired outcome. Create your destiny and reach for your dreams, you only live once.
Husam Wafaei
#59. We always felt divine in this place, tasting a desired view of the world, knowing a voracious appetite for the love that dare not speak its name, my soul sewn to your soul. Our fortunate embroidery.
Lisa O'Donnell
#60. How lonely I was, even when I was with him. How it felt, him not making love to me, being affectionate, making me feel desired or desirable. How much it bothered me that, even though I'd talked to him about all of this, even wrote him other e-mails, it didn't ever seem to penetrate.
Kristen Ashley
#61. She talked about wanting to be a part of something, wanting to be desired, to be 'special', craving to be loved. She talked about experiencing the kind of loneliness so immense it could swallow you up. She called it 'loneliness that crowds couldn't cure'.
Cupcake Brown
#62. An adamant silence overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you meet them. It balances on the edge of an indefinable unknown, unconsciously desired.
Carl Henegan
#63. The man believes the woman's got the hidden secret. That's a rare thing. You meet lots of people, and they're all deserved of love, of course, but romantic love involves some kind of supplement: she has the secret. That's what's desired.
John Maus
#64. All I have ever wanted, needed, dreamed and desired is contained within you.
Truth Devour
#65. If you desired someone, if he comforted you, if you thought he might leech the poison out of your heart, was that love? Or only desperation?
Rosamund Hodge
#66. It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really.
Nancy Horan
#67. The mysteries I desired to learn of heaven and earth and all that is between could only be taught by experiencing you.
Truth Devour
#68. You will never go wrong in concluding that a man has once loved deeply whatever he hates, and loves it yet; that he once admired and still admires what he scorns, that he once greedily desired what now disgusts him.
Georg Groddeck
#69. It's about people who still are unaware. Therefore they strive to live by all means: love like no one before them loved, believe like no one ever believed, desire like no one else ever desired ...
Marius Ivaskevicius
#70. This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest ... She was free, for love liberates.
Paulo Coelho
#71. When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned.
Emma Forrest
