Quotes About Desire

What I want, is that you love me even unto death. For my part, it is in death I love you at this very instant. But I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.

we did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty as immodestly as possible.

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

L'amour est enfant de Bohême, Il n'a jamais jamais connu de loi. Si tou ne m'aimes pas, je t'aime. Si je t'aime, prends garde à toi!

What they liked in things they called luxury was only the money behind them; they loved wealth before they loved life.

La vita, giovanotto, è una donna sdraiata, con seni accostati e rigonfi, con una gran pancia liscia e molle fra i fianchi sporgenti, con braccia sottili, cosce piene e occhi socchiusi, che nella sua provocazione splendida e beffarda esige il nostro più fervido ardore.

Los caminos que seguían, los valores a los que se abrían, sus perspectivas, sus deseos, sus ambiciones, todo eso, es cierto, les parecía a veces desesperadamente vacío. No conocían nada que no fuera frágil o confuso. Era, sin embargo, su vida, era la fuente de exaltaciones desconocidas, más que embriagadoras, era algo inmensa, intensamente abierto.

Sucumbían perante os signos da riqueza: amaban a riqueza en vez de ama-la vida.

Naquel mundo que era o seu, era case obrigatoria desexar sempre máis do que se podería adquirir. Non eran eles quen o decretaran; era unha lei da civilización, unha situación de feito, da cal a publicidade en xeral, os grandes almacéns, a arte dos escaparates, o espectáculo da rúa, e mesmo, en certa medida, o conxunto das produccións comunmente chamadas culturais, eran as expresións máis fidedignas.

Pero nestes tempos e nestas latitudes, cada vez hai máis xente que non é rica nin pobre: soñan coa riqueza e poderían facerse ricos: é aí onde empezan as súas desgracias.

Todo se contradicía con eles, e en primeiro lugar a vida mesma. Eles querían gozar da vida, pero, por todas partes, ó seu redor, gozo confundíase coa propiedade.

without knowing why, he yielded to the temptation of those lips and flung onto them, eating them, partaking of their sacrament... Eucharist of love with a red host!

The only man who is truly happy is a man who has an idée fixe. It takes up his every minute, fills any empty spaces in his thought, sneaks unexpected pleasures into his boredom, gives direction to his idle hours, again and again enlivens the stagnant waters of existence with a surging current.

Non erano mai stati due in nessun altro posto, se non quando avevano fatto l'amore per la prima volta, fra l'erba alta e le ortiche al margine del bosco di Sarelle. - La camera azzurra

Non si passa la vita a letto, in una camera vibrante di sole, abbandonandosi al furore di due corpi nudi. - La camera azzurra

He didn't reply. He would have given a lot to share that improvised meal, those potatoes cooked under ash, those sausages browned by time, that wine that appeared so refreshing!

Nem lehet boldoggá tenni az embereket akaratuk ellenére... Viszont ami a boldogtalanná tevést illeti...

Più io sono goffo avvicinandomi a lei e più, ne sono sicuro, lei è contenta. È il mio turbamento che osserva piuttosto di pensare al suo piacere, quell'attimo in cui per un miracolo che si riproduce alcuni milioni di volte al giorno, un corpo di donna diventa per un uomo la sola cosa importante al mondo.

Is it not unsupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?

She succumbed to the eternal feminine passion for bargains.

If you imagine that I have the smallest desire to receive your hand as a reward for having performed a difficult task to your satisfaction you're beside the bridge, my child! I've no fancy for a reluctant wife. I want your love, not your gratitude.

How very odd, to be sure!' 'What is?' She walked on, her brow a little furrowed. 'Wishing to kiss someone you never saw before in your life. It seems quite mad-brained to me, besides showing a sad want of particularity.

It is in the nature of 9 men out of 10 that what may be theirs for the picking up, they are much inclined to despise, and what seems to be out of reach, they instantly and fervently desire.

I wish you did return my regard, he said. More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!