Quotes About Desire

But replacing hunger for divine connection with Double Stuf Oreos is like giving a glass of sand to a person dying of thirst. It creates more thirst, more panic.

Stephen Levine, a Buddhist teacher, says that hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else. Being constantly agitated—another word for nonaccepting—about the inevitable. Being in a relationship with someone and refusing to surrender to the love because you don't want to give yourself to something you will eventually lose.

We keep wanting more because we don't let ourselves have what we already have

The fantasy of the taste of M&Ms is more enchanting than the taste of M&Ms

hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are.

Once you discover freedom, you want to capture it, never let it go.

Mingus had always known that that was what the blues was: music played to the dead, calling them back, showing them the way back to the living. Now he realized part of the blues was the opposite of that: the desire to be dead yourself, a way of helping the living find the dead.

The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do.

Then he just let it ring, the phone pressed to his head like a pistol, her picture in his hands.

Most people don't want what they want: people love to be prevented, restricted. The hamster not only loves his cage, he'd be lost without it.

Who shall give a lover any law?' Love is a greater law, by my troth, than any law written by mortal man.

I'll die for stifled love, by all that's true.

In general, my liege lady,' he began, 'Women desire to have dominion Over their husbands, and their lovers too; They want to have mastery over them. That's what you most desire—even if my life Is forfeit. I am here; do what you like.

Lust is addicted to novelty.

you are the cause by which I die

And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo?

The fiery heat of love by now had cooled, For from the time he kissed her hinder parts He didn't give a tinker's curse for tarts; His malady was cured by this endeavor And he defied all paramours whatever.

Quién ha vivido un solo día en completa felicidad, sin verse sacudido por la conciencia, la ira, el deseo, la envidia, el orgullo, la pasión, el daño o por alguna especie de temor?

You go away,' she answered, 'you Tom-fool! There's no come-up-and-kiss-me here for you. I love another and why shouldn't I too?

La avaricia es la causa de todos los vicios.

The youngest of the three, who went to the town, turned over full oft in his mind the beauty of those gold coins, new and bright. "O Lord," said he, "if only it were so that I might have to myself all this treasure alone, there is no man who lives under the Throne of God who would be as merry as I!" And, at last, the Devil, our enemy, put into his thoughts that he should buy poison, with which he might slay his fellows two.

El amor es una cosa tan libre como el espíritu.

He who covets is a poor wretch, because he longs for what he can not have. But he who has naught, and covets naught, is rich, although you may think him but a lowly knave.

The fiery heat of love by now had cooled, for from the time he kissed her hinder parts, he didn't give a tinker's curse for tarts, his malady was cured by his endeavor, and he defied all paramours whatever.