Liz Phair Quotes

To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.

It really depends on how thirsty I was.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Timing is irrelevant when it comes to desire.

desire is a beast that must be fed!

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

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

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

Appetite comes with eating.

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.

There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.

Want! You must want something. What do you want?

All I see is people out there who are hungry for more.

I've got the hungries for your love and I'm waiting in your welfare line.

Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient has been compromised or incomplete—is the constant on the continuum of hunger, it's what links the anorexic to the garden-variety dieter, it's the persistent pulse of need and yearning behind the reach for food, for sex, for something.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

Desire is important.

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

There's no prayer like desire.