Quotes About Desire

The outcome of a finite game is the past waiting to happen. Whoever plays toward a certain outcome desires a particular past. By competing for a future prize, finite players compete for a prized past.

The paradox of infinite play is that the players desire to continue the play in others. The paradox is precisely that they play only when others go on with the game. Infinite players play best when they become least necessary to the continuation of play. It is for this reason they play as mortals. The joyfulness of infinite play, its laughter, lies in learning to start something we cannot finish.

Sexuality is the only finite game in which the winner's prize is the defeated opponent.

Because what's worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

Amos, talk about pearls for teeth ... you got 'em. No wonder the boys go for you, because I could too and if I had something to push between those pearly teeth I'd be first in line.

Everyone was just trying to find a way to be happy, to feel fulfilled. The manner in which they searched for that state differed wildly, but the prize remained the same.

But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires.

It was love, the furnace into which everything was dropped.

I watched you while you were sleeping and you looked completely at peace. I wish I could feel that. I wish I could close my eyes and feel at peace. But I can't. I can't feel anything if I'm not with you, and even then all I can do is want something that I don't think I can ever have, at least not now. so I left this, and my peace, with you. Stark.

For there are two things not easily controlled, and they are hunger and jealousy.

All his life he had wished and waited, and there had been no change, except for the worse.

Ever since he had been a kid, he had wished and waited, and there had been no change except for the worst.

Whatever of motive there may have been in the lawyer's query, 'Who is my neighbour?' aside from that of self-justification and a desire to retreat in the best form possible from an embarrassing situation, we may conceive to lie in the wish to find a limitation in the application of the law, beyond which he would not be bound to go. If he had to love his neighbors as he loved himself, he wanted to have as few neighbors as possible." -ch. 26 of Jesus the Christ

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

GüzelliÄŸinin doÄŸaüstü bir yan? vard?. Onun gibi bir yarat???n var olmas? mümkün deÄŸildi sanki. Bir hediye gibi görünen ÅŸey yanl?? birinin ilgisini çekmiÅŸ ve öldürülmesine neden olmuÅŸ olabilir. Ne yaz?k ki dünyadaki birçok insan?n güzellikle yüz yüze geldiÄŸindeki ilk isteÄŸi, onu yok etmektir.

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

And the heart-shock of believing, for only a moment, that you might just have what could never be yours.

I had nothing to offer her. I was illness, instability, everything she wanted to get away from.

Was ist, wenn einer zufällig von einem Herzen besessen ist, dem nicht zu trauen ist? Wenn dein tiefstes Inneres dich singend zum Scheiterhaufen lockt, sollst du dich dann lieber abwenden, dir die Ohren mit Wachs verstopfen, den perversen Glanz ignorieren, von dem dein Herz dir zubrüllt? [...] Oder ist es besser, dich - wie Boris - kopfüber und lachend in das heilige Wüten zu stürzen, das deinen Namen ruft?

And beauty is terror,' said Julian, 'then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?' 'To live,' said Camilla. 'To live forever,' said Bunny, chin cupped in palm.

The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than anything.

We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?" "To live," said Camilla. "To live forever''.

Às vezes queremos o que queremos mesmo sabendo que isso vai nos matar. Não podemos escapar de quem somos.

I looked at Camilla, her face bright in the sun, and thought of that line from the Iliad that I love so much, about Pallas Athene and the terrible eyes shining. And if beauty is terror, said Julian, then what is desire? We think we have many desires but in fact we only have one. What is it? To live said Camilla To live forever said Bunny, chin cupped in palm The teakettle began to whistle.