Quotes About Desire

Here we see how the barrier between Adam and Eve and the tree creates an excessive drive by making the fruit of the tree into something excessively desired. While Adam and Eve can try to content themselves with substitute objects, they remain enchanted by the illusion of what lies out of reach.

The lover is the one whose heart proclaims, "I had no need of you until I met you, but now I know I always needed you." Or alternatively, "I had no desire for you until I met you, and now I know that I have always desired you.

The love that Christ spoke of is born of God, and when we see it at work, we know that the person has been born of God. If the works being carried out are for other reasons (such as the desire for salvation), then it is not love that we are witnessing. This love is not the narcissistic love that we see all around us and within us; this love is more radical that we can ever imagine.

Paul understood that the prohibition (what he called "the Law") was not the water that extinguished excessive desire, but a fuel that fed it. The problem for Paul was not desire as such, but rather its morphing into an obsessive/excessive impulse through the introduction of a law—a law that tempts us to act immorally precisely by demanding that we act morally.

If we dream of faith leading to the accumulation of profit—as so many Christian preachers are quick to say on television, in great cathedrals, and in overflowing stadiums—we betray our deep-seated desire for a treasure that exists over and above faith. Yet, compared with faith itself, all else is but straw.

In the logic of faith it is only by renouncing the wealth directly, saying, "I do not care about what I get from this sacrifice; all I want is you," that we discover the wealth indirectly.

It is in this way that we should approach the story of the pearl of great price: understanding that if we were to sell everything that we possessed in order to own a priceless pearl, then we would become the poorest of all, having nothing of value except for the pearl itself. We would not be able to purchase food or pay for shelter. We would be destitute. The only thing we would be able to do would be to sell the pearl. But then we would no longer have the pearl.

The paradox of the pearl lies in the idea that, in becoming the poorest of all, we simultaneously become the richest of all. The poverty is not then a first step toward the treasure; rather, the poverty is the very place where we find it. Hence, we can make the rather counterintuitive claim that, in the realm of faith, it is only in renouncing our desire for wealth that we discover it.

Det gælder om at blive fuldt og helt identisk med intensiteten i det udtrykskrævende liv. Alt det, der lever i os, ønsker at blive medinddraget.

Tryk forvandles ikke til trang, til livslyst eller livsglæde, men splintres voldeligt, hvis alle kræfter sættes ind. Og det er tragisk. Den slags mennesker knuses af den is, som deres hjerter ikke kan smelte. De ødelægger det, de ville være gode ved.

He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters? Stuck on to other objects we select? Look at him! ... My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband - a caring citizen - a worshipper of abstract and unifying God. My achievement, however, is more likely to make a ghost!

ÈŠn mediul celor avuÈ›i, insaÈ›iabili, "interesul pentru art? nu e, de regul?, decât faÈ›a duminical? a l?comiei".

mundo quiere ser engañado".

Pornography won't be enough. Because it never is. Sooner or later, all niggers want to touch the real thing. All dogs want to smell and taste the true information. All artists want to make their fantasies reality. And everyone with a cock wants to use it to fall in love.

La felicidad está en desear lo que uno recibe.

You mustn't expect too much," I said. "Happiness consists of wanting what you get.

A little wolf is present in every one of us.

The only driver for his work was desire, a kind of hunger for reality, for presence, and also for intimacy, as opposed to publicity. In a very wide sense, he was interested in transcendence.

She thought, instead, with longing of more books—of buying books—of slipping into a narrative of other people's lives. That was release.

Because dead people are just like you and me, they still want things. They look at us all the time, and they miss being alive. We have taste and color and smell and feelings, and they don't have any of those things. They stare at us, they don't miss anything. They really see what's going on, and we hardly ever really see that. We're too busy thinking about things and getting everything wrong, so we miss ninety percent of what's happening.

Why should I hide That he is still my heart's desire More than all the world.   A furnace blast Of love has melted my heart Without his love, it can beat no more.

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us

If she is not able to complete her studies, she will get married at the proper age, i.e. not too young.' And educated men, both urban and rural, desire to marry women who have attained a certain level of education as well (although none of them wants to marry a woman with a higher education level than himself!).