Quotes of: Desirability Keyword

The central movement of the mind is the desire for unrestricted liberty and (...) this movement is invariably accompanied by its opposite, a dread of the consequences of liberty.

The Ides of March

The mystery of desire was way beyond the conceptual abilities of Jules Jacobson. It was like ... robotics. Just another subject that she couldn’t understand at all.

The Interestings

She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.

Ironside

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II

Everyone lusts. Everyone Fantasizes. When your lover respects you, you should feel free to explore your desires. No matter how extreme.

Kate's Crew

I was besieged by a yearning, a craving, a burning desire. My heart had opened like one of those mysterious flowers that only bloom at night.

Katie in Love

When you look at me, tease my desire with a mere gaze, it shreds the edges of my soul…

Rock Star Lover

It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.

Ressentiment

The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

Status Anxiety

When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or will, given time enough.

Sister Carrie

Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.

Saturn's Children

The desired shape your dreams take is directly proportional to the practical presentation of the theoretical skills that you have learnt.

Shaping the dream

The cover of a book is akin to the door of a home; if it is welcoming and enticing, it beckons you and your visit will be all the more pleasurable and desirable.

The Sword of Demelza

When it comes to men, it's often easier done than said.

The Sex-Starved Wife: What to Do When He's Lost Desire

A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it.

Sex, Drugs, and Being an Escort

You shouldn't blame others for the conditions you endure; we each have the freedom to follow which path we desire in life.

The Solution

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

The Song of the Lark

Beso me without desire so I may hear her coo, that grew in you

Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line

It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.

Meditations

I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.

My Education

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God