#desire

The world yearns. This is its sure gravity: the attraction of bodies. Earth for molten star. Moon for earth. A hand for the orb of a breast. This is its movement too: the motion of desire, of a longing toward. ↗

— Alison MacLeod

#love #love

I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last. ↗

— John Scalzi

#love #love

On Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday: "These two simply appreciate one another more than either of them appreciates anyone else, and they would rather be appreciated by one another more than by anyone else. They just are at home with one another, whether or not they can ever live together under the same roof -- that is, ever find a roof they can live together under. ↗

— Stanley Cavell

#desire #dialogue #love #marriage #remarriage

I think I am a rare breed, a homosexual who doesn't like men. ↗

— Michel Tremblay

#gay #homosexual #masculinity #men

Be like the flower, content with its nature. ↗

— Seth D.

#contentment #desire #happiness #identity #living

Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love. Of course, there’s the momentary rush of hormones and chemicals that encourages us to mate, but it’s biology – it’s no more inherently mystical than the nicotine in that cigarette you’re smoking ↗

— Amy Jenkins

#chemical #desire #hormones #love #passion

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. ↗

— John Adams

#beloved #considered #desire #discovered #dispositions

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. ↗

— James Allen

#aspire #desire #obtain

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are. ↗

— James Allen

#desire #good #just #moment #money

I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#been #bureaucracy #desire #ever #hate