Quotes About Desire

I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

But like a love affair, looking back you remember the happy times best — the things that drew you in, attracted you in the first place, the things that kept you coming back for more.

I wanted to be apart from everything I grew up with. In short, I wanted to be elsewhere.

Who can really describe why they fell in love?

What I do I do because I like to do.

The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance. You must take your chance, boy. The choice has been all yours.

As for the new world war that's waiting in the womb of time, a healthily developed foetus, who can say what will spark it, how destructive it will be? We've already played at this war in film and fiction, indicating that there's a part of us that desperately wants it. What nonsense writers and filmmakers talk when they say that their terrible visions are meant as a warning. [...] It's sheer wish fulfillment. War... is a culture pattern. It's a legitimate mode of cultural transmission....

Then I wanted to sick up the gluey pie I'd had before the start of the evening, But I couldn't stand the sort of veshch, sicking all over the floor, so I held it back.

Each man kills the thing he loves

I wanted music very bad this evening, that singing devotchka in the Korova having perhaps started me off. I wanted like a big feast of it before getting my passport stamped, my brothers, at sleep's frontier and the stripy shest lifted to let me through.

Connection was the thing, whether through bed, bottle, grand inquisitorial session.

I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless...

her insan sevdiÄŸi ÅŸeyi öldürür. Ceza öÄŸesi budur belki de.

Power, power, everybody like wants power

Tutku korkuyu kovabilen tek güçtür.

But you could viddy a like gleam in his glazzies, because now he would be taking over for this nochy. Power power, everybody like wants power.

Hapisteki ÅŸairin dediÄŸi gibi, her insan sevdiÄŸi ÅŸeyi öldürür. Ceza öÄŸesi budur belki de. (syf. 100)

Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh.

after which he followed up with the style of "Stealing Peaches beneath the Leaves

the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.

People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.

Yeah baby, give me some of that rancid yak milk.

Marriage appeared something remote and forbidding, with which desire for Barbara had little or no connexion. She seemed to exist merely to disturb my rest: to be possessed neither by lawful nor unlawful means: made of dreams, yet to be captured only by reality.

In fact, so far as 'love' was concerned, I had been living for some years past in a rather makeshift manner. This was not because I felt the matter to be of little interest, like a man who hardly cares what he eats provided hunger is satisfied, or one prepared to discuss painting, should the subject arise, though never tempted to enter a picture gallery. On the contrary, my interest in love was keen enough, but the thing itself seemed not particularly simple to come by.