Quotes About Desire

I desire you, it's as simple and awful as that.... it's idiotic, but I love you.

He had learned this: Nothing that lived, nothing that walked or crawled or flew or swam or slithered or oozed—nothing, not one thing on God's earth wanted to die. No matter what people thought or said about chickens or fish or cattle—they all wanted to live.

To know things, for us to know things, is bad for them. We get to wanting and when we get to wanting it's bad for them. They thinks we want what they got . . . . That's why they don't want us reading.

hunger makes the best sauce.

I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.

You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.

I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

How desperately I wanted to forsake these facts, to open a smelly old book or to go down on a pretty young girl instead. Why couldn't I have been born to a better world?

That's what tyrants can do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.

There's something outrageously simple about extending yourself toward a goal the way a plant seeks the sun's rays or a gopher the crunch of easy soil beneath his paws, and then getting exactly what you want , sunshine or some prized tuber.

I think of my mother and father. Of their constant anxiety. But their anxiety means they still want to live.

Senderovsky to Ed: When I stopped falling in love. My art died.

As psychologist Susan Weinschenk explained,[52] 'dopamine causes us to want, desire, seek out, and search'. Yet 'the dopamine system is stronger than the opioid system. We seek more than we are satisfied. ... Seeking is more likely to keep us alive than sitting around in a satisfied stupor.

Yet pornography transforms that drive into a force that primarily motivates the completely solitary and unproductive activity of masturbation.

No matter how miserable they are, porn seems like a way to feel good a solution rather than a source of problems.

Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer...In this admiration, which goes beyond the passivity of contemplative attitudes, the joy of reading appears to be the reflection of the joy of writing, as though the reader were the writer's ghost.

Nema ništa gore nego voljeti nekoga tko vas ne voli,a istovremeno je to najljepša stvar koja mi se ikada dogodila. Voljeti nekoga tko i vas voli,to je narcizam..... Voljeti nekoga tko vas ne voli...To je ljubav

the passionate being prepares his explosions and his exploits in this solitude.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

You will be the happiest of women. And we will sing, all by ourselves, till we swoon away with delight. You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.

Does he love you so much? He would commit murder for me.