Quotes About Desire

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

Ausentes como estábamos de todo lo que nos rodeaba, en la contemplación de ese rostro apasionante, no nos dimos cuenta de que había pasado la noche, de que había llegado hasta nosotros, disfrazada con la tibieza del deseo consumado y con la luz del alba, la muerte.

He tratado de entregarte, para que tú lo retuvieras en tu puño, para que lo acogieras en tu pecho, junto a tu corazón desfalleciente, el significado de un instante: el instante en el que por la amplitud de mi deseo, supe que eras mía.

Missing you is worse than Pittsburgh.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

It's not that we think too much about sex, it's that we don't think enough of it.

The challenge is, we can want to change, we can even know we need to change, but that doesn't mean we will change.

The challenge is, we can want to change, we can even know we need to change, but that doesn't necessarily mean we will change.

When you get aroused playing Scrabble, that's love, baby.

The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst.

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is we'll find it.

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

You pay a whore to make you feel like a man, you fund a philharmonic to make yourself feel like a refined man.

In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.

neglected and betrayed you, but the animal inside you needed the animal inside them. If only, Rachel thought, you could be content with the animal part. Sometimes it was a burden to be human.

Unrequited love is bad, but unrequitable love can really get you down.

Malo es el amor no correspondido; pero lo que verdaderamente puede hundirlo a uno es el amor no correspondible.

Los sueños de comida son como cualquier otro sueño: puedes vivir de ellos, mientras no te mueras.

Quien no siente el deseo de volver a vivir la vida es porque la ha desperdiciado.

I've been in love and you'll never know

One of the great paradoxes of management is that the people who pursue leadership positions most ardently are often the wrong people for the job. They're motivated by the prestige the role conveys rather than a desire to promote the goals and values of the organization.

I . . . cannot fall asleep because there is a foreign feeling in my veins, it is the feeling of finally getting what I wanted, and the feeling is colder than I ever thought it would be.

He gave me an inside of ice so I'd never love you. But it didn't work. You are so close. You are the only warm thing to me. So warm, I am melting.