Cole Porter Quotes

Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.

...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose.

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

The dead are happy, having no desire. I rise and fall, and rise and fall again, Something is in me, famishing for bread, Baffled and unappeasable as fire.

Sam looked at me, yellow eyes catching and holding me. "I miss being me. I miss you. All the time.

You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

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

You know what makes your heart swift, you know what makes your breath catch your throat, you know what makes your chest tight with anticipation. Go get that!

There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode.

An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.

Love is great, love is fine. Out the box, out of line. The affliction of the feeling leaves me wanting more.

... I stare into the fridge. Like a mirrored image of myself. Cold and empty, and the lights come on only when you open the door. Otherwise ice-cold purring darkness.

Knowing they were in the same city again made the missing him flare up inside her. In her stomach. Why were people always going on and on about the heart? Almost everything Levi happened in Cath’s stomach.

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.

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

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.

I swore that I would never say I miss you more everyday but, some things are better left unsaid.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.

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

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.

Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.

I need you like the blues needs the pain.

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

I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.

I want you more than I should," she heard herself say. "I have you less than I want.