Quotes About Desire

But no artist, I now realise, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gainsaid.

If the thing you want beyond anything cannot be, it is much better to recognise it and go forward, instead of dwelling on one's regrets and hopes.

I wanted to kill... yes, I wanted to kill. But- incongruous as it may seem to some- I was retrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.

Nineteen, twenty, my plate's empty.' But the reader's plate is full

His manner, as always, was incurious - almost lazy. He asked the question, it seemed, more from politeness than because he had any desire for the information. It was a manner particularly soothing to Mary Aldin. She wanted badly to talk to someone - but she much preferred to talk to someone who was not too much interested.

And the Colonel?' 'Went there one day with a book on India that Miss Blacklock had expressed a desire to read.' 'Had she?' 'Her account is that she tried to get out of having to read it, but it was no use.' 'And that's fair enough,' sighed Craddock. 'If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it's mercenary of me, but there it is!

She wanted butter. She wanted lots of butter." "It's not just a question of butter,

But you can figure to yourself, monsieur, that a man may work towards a certain object, may labour and toil to attain a certain kind of leisure and occupation, and then find that, after all, he yearns for the old busy days, and the old occupations that he thought himself so glad to leave?

Without acute mania it may nevertheless occur that certain natures lack what I should describe as braking power. If you or I were to say, 'I hate someone—I wish he were dead,' the idea would pass from our minds as soon as the words were uttered. The brakes would work automatically. But, in some people the idea, or obsession, holds. They see nothing but the immediate gratification of the idea formed.

A man in drink can be like a ravening wolf.

Adalar?n en iyi yan? insan?n istedi?i zaman kaçamamas?nda...

The desire, profound and pitiful, to be appreciated. If that is thwarted, if through an unpleasing personality a human being is unable to get the response it needs, it turns to other methods—it must be felt—it must count—and so to innumerable strange perversions. The habit of cruelty, like any other habit, can be cultivated, can take hold of one—

It is a theory of mine that one always gets what one wants.

That's what she always wanted to be—at the centre of things.

Os tolos compram coisas que morrem nas primeiras geadas e aí desejam ter ficado com os girassóis e os bem-me-queres!

Not that Miss Bulstrode would have allowed herself to be commanded if she had not wished to do so.

Comprendo que ha tenido que hacer las veces de madre de su marido, cuando su mayor deseo hubiera sido ser simplemente su esposa.

The wish to kill and the action of killing are two different things.

Women however charming, have this disadvantage - they distract the mind from food.

To be content with what Nature has given you, that - that is stupid!

Seakan-akan kau benar-benar mencintaiku.

Do you know, M. Poirot, I rather hope that this case isn't going to be one of your successes. I'd quite like the murderer of Louise Leidner to get away with it. In fact, I wouldn't much have objected to putting her out of the way myself.

Um sonho. Um sonho apaixonante e sensual. E, depois do sonho, o despertar. Pareceu acontecer de modo bastante repentino. Como sair de um túnel direto para a luz.