Quotes About Desire

What affirmation and denial are in the case of thinking, pursuit and avoidance are in the case of longing for something.

since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature.

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight.

The self-indulgent man, then, craves for all pleasant things or those that are most pleasant . . . Hence he is pained both when he fails to get them and when he is craving for them, for appetite involves pain.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

Yet ambition and avarice, almost more than any other passions, are the motives of crime.

There is only one driving force: The desire.

And the avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end; for it is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Algunos creen q para ser amigos basta con querer, como si para estar sanos bastara con desear buena salud

there is no gain in being persuaded not to be hot or in pain or hungry or the like, since we shall experience these feelings none the less.

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

Learning and wonder are also usually pleasant. For wonder is a form of desire† and so the object of one's wonder is desirable, and learning is a form of restoring one's natural condition.*

and this is a union which is formed, not of deliberate purpose, but because, in common with other animals and with plants, mankind have a natural desire to leave behind them an image of themselves)

Once more; it is harder, as Heraclitus says, to fight against pleasure than against anger:

Moreover, he who would place the supreme power in mind, would place it in God and the laws; but he who entrusts man with it, gives it to a wild beast, for such his appetites sometimes make him; for passion influences those who are in power, even the very best of men: for which reason law is reason without desire.

desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self

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Again, men of the melancholic temperament constantly need some remedial process (because the body, from its temperament, is constantly being worried), and they are in a chronic state of violent desire. But Pleasure drives out Pain; not only such Pleasure as is directly contrary to Pain but even any Pleasure provided it be strong: and this is how men come to be utterly destitute of Self-Mastery, i.e. low and bad.

If, therefore, there is some end of our actions that we wish for on account of itself, the rest being things we wish for on account of this end, and if we do not choose all things on account of something else—for in this way the process will go on infinitely such that the longing6 involved is empty and pointless—clearly this would be the good, that is, the best.

You cannot be loved by someone who doesn't want to know you.

I want to deceive him just long enough to make him want me..

Well … everything gets old after a while. I personally get a little sick of wrecking my liver at The Lion for the privilege of tricking with some guy whose lover is in L.A. for the weekend.

Do you always make things up? Always. Why? Michael shrugged. 'I want to deceive him just enough to make him want me.' What's that from? Blanche DuBois. In Streetcar.