“And I need to see you, but I don’t see you, and I need to hear you, but I don’t hear you, and I need to touch you, but I don’t touch you, and I need to think about you, and that is all I do.”— Charles Bukowski, thelovejournals.com
“When seen as a whole, art derives from a person’s desire to communicate himself to another. I do not believe in an art which is not forced into existence by a human being’s desire to open his heart. All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.”— Richard Simmons, books.google.com
“I want you. I want your sleepy confused look when you wake up. I want to be the warmth that fills the space in your bed. I want to be the sheets your fingers crave at night; the blanket that wraps around you all night. I want to drink tea with you, share some records we find. I want to talk about ev…”— Elay Neal Moses, wordsthat-speak.tumblr.com
“I want to keep kissing you until our lips can’t tell each other apart.”— Schuyler Peck, schuylerpeck.tumblr.com
“Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Love is strange. It’s an acute kind of loneliness, isn’t it? That constant yearning for the other person. That hunger. I didn’t think it was possible but there it was. It’s not pleasure but pain.”— Candy Gourlay, amazon.com
“At first I could not meet his eyes. When I did it was like sitting close to a fire that suddenly blazes up.”— Tracy Chevalier, amazon.com
“I wanted to tell you that wherever I am, whatever happens, I’ll always think of you, and the time we spent together, as my happiest time. I’d do it all over again, if I had the choice. No regrets.”— Cynthia Hand, amazon.com
“Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I’m number one in his life. I’m not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.”— Amy Tan, amazon.com
“I didn’t want the easy kind of love, I wanted the crazy love, the kind of love that created and destroyed all at the same time.”— Julie Murphy, amazon.com
“What I never learned from my mother is that just because someone desires you does not mean they value you. Desire is the kind of thing that eats you and leaves you starving.”— Nayyirah Waheed, amazon.com
“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your f…”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.”— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.com
“I desire to have both heaven and hell ever in my eye, while I stand on this isthmus of life, between two boundless oceans.”— John Wesley, en.wikiquote.org
“Don’t you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered—and I was delivered to you—to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a hole bouquet—to the world.”— Zelda Fitzgerald, amazon.com