Quotes About Desire

Hatsumomo's lovely smille grew... until her lips were as rich and full as drops of blood beading at the edge of a wound

But, Mameha-san, I don't want kindness!" "Don't you? I thought we all wanted kindness. Perhaps what you mean is that you want something more than kindness. And that is something you're in no position to ask.

dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.

Ninguno de nosotros encuentra en este mundo todo el cariño que deberíamos.

Nikad nisam stvarno razumjela zašto se Hatsumomo izlaže takvom riziku i dovodi ljubavnika u okiju, iako je nju vjerojatno upravo to uzbu?ivalo.

Otrpjet ?u napore školovanja, otrpjet ?u sve muke, samo neka mi se pruži prilika privu?i pozornost muškarca kao što je predsjednik.

Zato snovi mogu biti tako opasni:oni tinjaju poput prigušene vatre,a ponekad se vatra rasplamsa i potpuno nas proguta.

Por eso los sueños son tan peligrosos: abrasan como el fuego y a veces nos consumen completamente.

This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.

Sap?i var b?t b?stami, tie gruzd k? uguns un reiz?m piln?gi p?r?em m?s sav? var?.

we drank each other up with so much yearning and need that afterward I felt myself drained of all the things the Chairman had taken from me, and yet filled with all that I had taken from him.

There are even men who do little in their lives besides search for different caves to let their eels live in. A woman's cave is particularly special to a man if no other eel has ever been in it before.

Por eso los sueños son tan peligrosos: abrasan como el fuego y te consumen completamente

Sencillamente no me gusta tener delante de mí lo que no puedo alcanzar.

Al tempio c'è una poesia intitolata la mancanza, incisa nella pietra. Ci sono 3 parole, ma il poeta le ha cancellate. Non si può leggere la mancanza, solo avvertirla.

was living only half in Gion; the other half of me lived in my dreams of going home. This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.

Los sueños son muy peligrosos: abrasan como el fuego y a veces nos consumen completamente.

The trouble in our society is that everyone wants drugs that are free from risk and, as you and I both know, they don't exist and never will.

We are unhappy because we think that love is something we require from someone else.

Wij zijn ongelukkig omdat wij denken dat we lief moeten 'hebben'. Om gered te worden moeten wij iets eenvoudigs doen dat ons desalniettemin het zwaarst van alles valt: wegschenken waarnaar wij juist het meest verlangen. Niet 'hebben', maar 'geven'. Zo zegepralen wij alsnog. Dit heeft mij mijn gebrek geleerd.

To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like paté de foie gras.

The sex-drive in the Freudian system is essentially something to be disposed of -through the proper channels or by sublimation; pleasure is derived not from its pursuit, but from getting rid of it.

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you comin' through the door.

It's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for a two week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And still-that's how you build a future.