Quotes About Desire

I wanted to go home. Which was nowhere, but it's a feeling you keep having, even after that's no longer a place anymore. Probably if they dropped a bomb and there wasn't any food left on the planet, you'd still keep feeling hungry too.

If wishes were horses, like they say. We'd all have different shit to shovel.

Sex will get you through times with no money better than money will get you through times with no sex.

Moths must fly to his flame and perish gladly.

Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittlebush in a dry wind.

It hit me pretty hard, how there's no kind of sad in this world that will stop it turning. People will keep on wanting what they want, and you're on your own.

might call it a great passion. When the true name of what we're dealing with is greed, or lust. We all have the special talent of believing in a falsehood, and believing it devoutly, when we want it to be true.

I was born to wish for more than I can have.

Four demons spawned by four different starving hearts.

I'm out of the habit. I've spent years trying not to want. Just, you know, as an endeavor, like quitting smoking.

She told him television was a bad influence. Probably she was right. Like those white birds he's been seeing outside the window, it flashes its wings and promises whatever you want, even before you knew you wanted it.

The hopeless wishes that won't quit stalking you: some perfect words you think you could say to somebody to make them see you, and love you, and stay. Or could say to your mirror, same reason.

driving me to see my mom get put in the ground. It hit me pretty hard, how there's no kind of sad in this world that will stop it turning. People will keep on wanting what they want, and you're on your own.

We will change our ways significantly as a nation not when some laws tell us we have to (remember Prohibition?), but when we want to.

That a craving can ratchet itself up and up inside a body and mind, at the same time that body's strength for tolerating its favorite drug goes down and down.

But people desire fair government. You say that constantly." "They want to believe in heroes, also. And villains. Especially when very frightened. It's less taxing than the truth.

I'd give anything to have stayed home. If wishes were horses, like they say. We'd all have different shit to shovel.

It hit me pretty hard, how there's no kind of sad in this world that will stop it turning. People will keep on wanting

Well, that's how thick I am, I never knew how to want what everyone wants. I only thought to look for a home, some place to be taken in. Handing over a crumpled heart, seeing it dropped in the wastepaper basket every time. Here, though. Americans sent love letters in return.

For my part, I merely watched young, deprived female bosoms panting before my handsome husband, soldier of the Lord. (I longed to shout: Go ahead and try him, girls, I am too tired!)

We will change our ways significantly as a nation not when some laws tell us we have to (remember Prohibition?), but when we want

Passing through every wall are electronic beams that create a shadow play of desire staged by the puppeteers of globalized commerce, who fund their advertising each year with more than a hundred dollars spent for this planet's every man, woman, child.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

I envied them with an intensity near to love, and near to rage.