Anne Carson Quotes

Never a possession, always the possessor, with skin as pale as smoke, and eyes tawny and sharp as yellow wine: Desire is everything you have ever wanted. Whoever you are. Whatever you are. Everything.

Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.

He loved her. He wanted her. He needed her. And he needed her now.

Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for

Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.

I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.

Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

When I want a thing, I want it dreadfully.

Timing is irrelevant when it comes to desire.

There's no prayer like desire.

Love is a flame to set the will on fire

I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.

You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.

Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.

The only thing that has ever consumed me is love from time to time. Feeling like, 'What is it? How do I get it?'

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

You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.