Quotes About Desire

prohibición, porque sin ella hubiera penetrado la

un sentimiento sólo puede ser una fuente de energía si a su vez es expresión de una necesidad imperiosa.

Si tengo el deseo de ver desnuda a una mujer, mi padre morirá.» El afecto penoso toma claramente un matiz inquietante y supersticioso y da ya origen a impulsos tendentes a hacer algo para alejar la desgracia, tales como se impondrán luego en las ulteriores medidas de protección.

The state has forbidden to the individual the practice of wrong-doing, not because it desires to abolish it, but because it wants to monopolize it, like salt and tobacco.

It is a characteristic common to all perversions that in them reproduction as an aim is put aside.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?

eÄŸer öpecek bir ÅŸeyiniz yoksa, sigara içmeniz kaç?n?lmazd?r.

Limitation in the possibility of an enjoyment raises the value of the enjoyment.

It shows that the idea of being devoured by the father gives expression, in a form that has undergone regressive degradation, to a passive, tender impulse to be loved by him in a genital-erotic sense.

The energetic and successful man is the one who succeeds in transforming the fantasies of desire into reality.

Îndr?gostitul este foarte nebun.

That there could be something in the world that a woman could want more than children has been viewed as unacceptable. Things may be marginally different now, but, even if there is something she wants more than children, that is no reason for a woman to remain childless. Any normal woman, it is understood, wants—and should want—both.

What we miss—what we lose and what we mourn—isn't it this that makes us who, deep down, we truly are. To say nothing of what we wanted in life but never got to have.

Here are more lines from The Great Gatsby. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove. I like to remember when I was one of them, or to pretend that I am one of them still, sensing that restless man at my back and half turning, no, turning all the way, open-armed, saying, Pick me, pick me .

At a certain point in her life, she realizes it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child' (109).

The wish to please, to charm—the desire to provoke desire—runs deep in me and seems to have been there from the beginning.

David Lurie is so appalled by his degraded state—no longer sexually attractive but still squirming with lust—that he finds himself musing about actual castration, the possibility that one might get a doctor to do it, or even, with the help of a textbook, do it oneself. For would that really be any more disgusting than the antics of a dirty old man? Instead, he forces himself on one of his students, a cannonball dive into disgrace that will be his undoing.

There was the secrecy that came from guilt (this in itself a bourgeois invention), and the secrecy that came when one individual or group desired to keep hold of its power over other individuals

And it's not the thought that she must miss them, but that she's no longer capable of missing them, that makes me sad. What we miss—what we lose and what we mourn—isn't it this that makes us who, deep down, we truly are. To say nothing of what we wanted in life but never got to have.

Surely she had never asked God for anything except that He should let her have her will. And every time she had been granted what she asked for—for the most part. Now here she sat with a contrite heart—not because she had sinned against God but because she was unhappy that she had been allowed to follow her will to the road's end.

Kristin. You cannot settle for anything less than the love that is between God and the soul.

You tug and strain like a young horse when it's first tied up at the stake, whenever you are tied by your heartstrings.

They who have loved one another with the fieriest desire come in the end to be as two vipers biting each other's tails.

Mrs Pargeter reflected, not for the first time, that there is within the human psyche an infinite yearning for humiliation.