“Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire”

“The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.”

“Lord, preserve me from tragedy and I will follow your desires.”

“Pleasure has desire in it. Desire is pain. There is no satisfaction. So pleasure is pain.”

“My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.”

“In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.”

“Look, Felicity,' says Howard, 'there's only one rule. Follow the line of your own desires.”

“I am Manuel, and I follow after my own thinking and my own desire.”

“There is pleasure when a sore is scratched,
But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires,
But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.”

“If it is traumatising to follow the same lecture every week, then what makes it desirable to sit in the same place daily?”