Quotes About Desire

She taught me that women who want without needing are expensive and sometimes wasteful, but women who need without wanting are dangerous – they suck you in and pretend not to notice.

I am listening in that fine space between desire and always the grave stillness before choice.

And I knew when I entered her I was high wind in her forests hollow fingers whispering sound honey flowed from the split cup impaled on a lance of tongues on the tips of her breasts on her navel and my breath howling into her entrances through lungs of pain.

But this delectable creature in front of me was most certanly a girl, and I wanted her for my very own - my very own what, I did not know - but for my very own self.

When the desire for definition, self or otherwise, comes out of a desire for limitation rather than a desire for expansion, no true face can emerge.

Je savais ce que c'était d'être hantée par le fantôme d'un moi que je voulais être, mais dont je n'étais qu'à moitié consciente.

The important thing to realize is the males in most species will breed with any female who stays still long enough. It's the females who are selective. What they desire has a huge effect. If all the female walruses got together one day to decide they wanted polka dots, within a few generations the males would have polka dots. The female's wish made physical on the male's body.

The mother was your friend, you see, but the woman was your enemy, and love between the sexes is strife. Do not think that I gave myself; I did not give, but I took—what I wanted.

If a flower you covet, straightway you are told it is another's.

If the child is not mine I have no control over her and don't want to have any, and that is precisely what you do want, isn't it? But perhaps you want even more—to have power over the child, but still have me to support you. LAURA.

she seeks me like roses in my mouth.

she wants me to embrace her, but I do not want to abuse eros, or her.

THE MOTHER: You don't ask much of life, do you? THE LADY: Why should I? You don't get what you ask for anyway.

You should have held me tight. You should have grabbed me and held on.

I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up.

My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit.

When you say, I need more confidence, what you're really saying is, I need those people over there to approve of me. That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

When I ate vanilla frosting straight from the can, I could feel God standing right next to me like a real best friend, watching, and smiling, and wishing he had a mouth.

What I really want is to sit next to someone on an L.L. bean blanket on the beach in the fall and drink coffee from the same mug. I don't want some rusty '73 Ford Pinto with a factory-defective gas tank that causes it to explode when its rear-ended in the parking lot of the supermarket. So why do I keep looking for Pintos?

How many of the things I fear or dread are actually things that I want?

There just didn't seem to be anything to hold on to. We weren't going anywhere, and we weren't pulling away. We were just floating, suspended in liquid. And I guess I want more. And I don't know what he wants.

It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?

Where there is willpower there is a Band Aid that's eventually going to fall off. You only need willpower to get what you don't want or you only want to want. By want to want, I mean, something you wish you wanted but don't really.