David Whyte Quotes

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.

Desire is no light thing.

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.

Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.

I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.

When I want a thing, I want it dreadfully.

First and foremost, 'Call Me by Your Name' is a story about love, and first loves, and unrequited, and then, later, requited love.

There's no prayer like desire.

I don't want to hold you and feel so helpless I don't want to smell you and lose my senses And smile in slow motion With eyes in love.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body... and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?

Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.

Why don't we follow our yearning?

All I want is moonlight, with you there inside of me, all night, doing it again and again. You know I want you so bad.

I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.

Desire is the key to motivation.

There is some kiss we want with the whole of our lives.

Oh Alexander," she said, "what do you want from me..." "Everything!" he whispered fiercely.

Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.

This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing.

I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me.