Quotes About Desire

After a while, the only presents I wanted were records and books.

no one was happy, everyone felt they were stuck there against their will, everyone was looking for something else, everyone knew there was a better life for them outside its walls.

No drugs, except maybe poppers.

de la implacable sensación de que mi vida se me queda corta.

A mí ahora, hiperactiva, prolífica, con voluntad para meterme en negocios raros que me enriquezcan una vida que siento que se me va a quedar corta.

Lo que yo desearía en la vida es saber nadar por la superficie.

Six dollars," Matt muttered as a sharp stone cut into his linen-bound foot. I could spend that much in six minutes at the mall! Not that there is a mall anywhere near here , he thought gloomily, looking into the darkened woods. What I wouldn't give to see a mall right now, with heat and electric lights and restaurants and shoe stores! But that's all two hundred years away.

I'm not even sure what I want, but that's not the point - it's that I want it now.

I don't wanna be a lover, I just wanna be your victim.

No use wishing now for any other sin.

The only two things that motivate me and that matter to me are revenge and guilt.

I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.

Your kisses lift me higher...like the sweet song of a choir. You light my morning sky, with burning love.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

in my heart is rooted in lovelessness and thanklessness.... By contrast, every truly holy act, including even the inner desire to be holy, springs out of the love and worship that He has placed in my heart.

Idolatry is always subject to the law of diminishing returns.

If you're willing to sin to obtain your goal or if you sin when you don't get what you want, then your desire has taken God's place and you're functioning as an idolater.

Love is the first cause of all the graces we desire; it "warms the heart, and sweetly and powerfully influences our affections to delight in, and to walk in love with such an exceedingly gracious and merciful God.

C.S. Lewis knew this. He believed that we were too easily satisfied with the "lesser joys" of life instead of pressing on to pure, full joy in Christ. He wrote, "We are halfhearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition [and food] when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased"7 Solomon

True repentance involves a hatred for sin and a turning from it and from all self-salvation projects … It's only as I hate my sin that I'll have the desire to fight it.

Because we were made for him, any place where he isn't will never satisfy us. In

I know this is more than I need, and that I'm harming myself by having it, but I love the pleasure of this experience more than I love the pleasure of doing what pleases the Lord, so I'm just going to go ahead and satiate myself.

Shigure: Hey get off me Yukina: Why would I? I'm in the middle of tempting you

Cruelty links all three primitives [pleasure, pain, and desire]: Spinoza defines it as the desire to inflict pain on someone we love or pity. Financial speaking, cruelty is analogous to a convertible bond whose debt and equity depend on three economic underliers: the stock price, the level of interest rates, and the credit worthiness of the company's debt.