Quotes About Desire

Corría el peligro de encontrarse a sí misma, cuando lo que más deseaba era perderse de vista.

Estou apaixonado porque vocês me falaram do amor. Nunca me teria apaixonado se não me fizessem interessar pelo tema." - Enrique Vila-Matas, Filhos sem Filhos

Mas que ingénua é, senhora Rita. Acho piada que se sinta bem em cortar com tudo. No entanto, agora só lhe peço que reflita sobre isto: há pessoas que nunca se teriam apaixonado se não tivessem ouvido falar do amor." - Enrique Vila-Matas, Filhos sem Filhos

Y, mirando hacia los rascacielos, se quedó esperando a recibir sensaciones de entusiasmo, de emoción, de plenitud, de felicidad. Sin embargo, la espera se reveló únicamente como una espera, sin más. Una espera plana, sin sobresaltos, sin entusiasmo alguno. Cuanto más miraba a los rascacielos en busca de cierta intensidad, más evidente se hacía que no iba a llegarle sensación especial alguna.

He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Mandami un pentolino di formaggio, perché io possa far baldoria quando ne ho voglia.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.

Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.

Orang bodoh tidak puas dengan semua yang dimilikinya. Mereka menyusahkan hati dengan semua yang tidak dimilikinya.

We must exercise ourselves in thte things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Pleasure and pain moreover supply the motives of desire and of avoidance, and the springs of conduct generally. This being so, it clearly follows that actions are right and praiseworthy only as being a means to the attainment of a life of pleasure. But that which is not itself a means to anything else, but to which all else is a means, is what the Greeks term the telos, the highest, ultimate or final Good.

Bukan kekurangan yang menyakitkan, tetapi menanggung rasa iri yang timbul dari angan-angan yang sia-sia.

Ketidakbahagiaan datang lewat ketakutan atau keinginan yang tidak terkendali.

Send me a pot of cheese, so that I may be able to indulge myself whenever I wish.

?yj?c o chlebie i wodzie, przyjemno?ci cia?a wywo?uj? we mnie groz?, gardz? luksusowymi rozkoszami, nie ze wzgl?du na nie, ale na niewygody z nimi zwi?zane.

Jangan rusakkan yang kita miliki dengan mendambakan apa yang tidak kita miliki. Ingatlah bahwa apa yang kita miliki pun merupakan hadiah keberuntungan.