Quotes About Desire

A goose is always hungry, just like—and no comparison meant—a poor man's children. A poor man's children eat anything you give them with gusto. And they're never full. I know it from experience.

I don't care what I'll be in America. I just want to get there. I'm dying to see the place. I've made up my mind to learn three things there: swimming, writing, and cigar smoking. I mean I can do all three already. But I'll do them better in America.

Do you know what my grandmother used to say? What a shame it is we have mouths, because if we didn't we'd never go hungry

licked his lips like a cat about to get a taste of the Pesach goosefat.

When there's bread," says my mother, "don't hanker after sweets.

If I were the Tsar I'd eat nothing but bread and watermelon all year round. I don't even mind the seeds. Give your melon a shake and they fall right out and you can eat all you want. Boy oh boy!

He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.

All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one.

She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms—greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge—has marked the upward surge of mankind. (Gordon Gekko, in Wall Street.

It takes a man to make a woman feel female, Jennifer thought, to make her feel beautiful, to make her feel wanted.

You asked me what I wanted to do with my money.' She looked him in the eye and said, 'I want to earn it.

A thousand times more crimes have been committed in the name of love than in the name of hate.

Our greatest temptations generally arise from the areas closest to our hearts.

my selfishness would be proof that it wasn't love, but a need for ownership.

Where id is, there shall ego be

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss

One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]

Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are forward, you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough, or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. -- A love letter from Freud to his fiancée.

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love