Thomas Harris Quotes

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

I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

You're an addiction...my obsession.

Sydney: Ever had that happen? Once you can’t have something, you want it that much more.” Adrian: “Yes. It happens all the time.

There are very few things in my life that I can't have if I want them. So when I see something that I can't have, immediately I'm obsessed by it.

Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.

There is nothing in this world that I want or need, but you.

You aren't alive if you aren't in need.

What we want is not always what we need.

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

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.

My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.

When someone covets something they desire and lust over it.Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem.

Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

desire is a beast that must be fed!

Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.

I don't wanna need you because I can't have you.

This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality.

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

What can I have that I still want?

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.

Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.