Quotes About Desire

He had stopped drinking, but the need to be free had been just as great...

Want to see the rock? Want to lay on it naked, and feel me in you, beneath the pinwheel stars, while the grass sings our names?

I'm like the curious cat. You know what they say—satisfaction brought him back.

Love me. My head is so bad tonight. Love me. Love me.

I love you, Beverly . . . just let me have that. You can have Bill, or the world, or whatever you need. Just let me have that, let me go on loving you, and I guess it'll be enough.

Right now all he wanted was to get out of this awful place where reality had worn so thin.

In the end, daughter of pandora that I am, my curiosity got the best of me. I wish it hadn't.

The world is hard and you can't have everything.

A real drunk is only int'rested in two things: puttin paid to the jug in the hand, and huntin for the one still in the bush.

She had a bottle of water in her pack—a big one with a squeeze-top—but suddenly all Trisha wanted in the world was to prime the pump in the little hut and get a drink, cold and fresh, from its rusty lip. She would drink and pretend she was Bilbo Baggins, on his way to the Misty Mountains.

But most of all they only say you were caught, that you wanted to be King, that it must be so.

How its heart beats! How it struggles to get away! As we do, Paul. As we do. We think we know so much, but we really don't know any more than a rat in a trap—a rat with a broken back that thinks it still wants to live.

Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away—even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

The shock of recognition is a moment of excitement that shakes the soul. It may be hard to describe, but like other forms of love, you will know it when you feel it

fear leans backward into the last safe moment while desire leans forward toward the next possibility of satisfaction. Each lacks presence.

Why do you suppose it is... that the idea of being young again is so appealing when being young the first time around was such hell?

Desire and aspiration are two different things. The idea that you want to achieve something in Zen meditation is basically selfish. 'I want to get enlightened' means 'I want to get enlightened.' But aspiration is not for myself, it is not a merely individual desire, it transcends the idea of self. It is desire without attachment. If enlightenment comes, good. If enlightenment does not come, good. Actually, this is enlightenment.

Here is a poem for you: The candy peddler is ringing his bell, and the child cries to its mother. Money becomes candy and candy becomes money. Money goes into the peddler's pocket, and candy goes into the child's mouth and is sweet.

be very careful about wanting enlightenment. This is a bad Zen sickness. When you keep a clear mind, the whole universe is you, you are the universe. So you have already attained enlightenment. Wanting enlightenment is only thinking. It is something extra, like painting legs on the picture of a snake. Already the snake is complete as it is. Already the truth is right before your eyes.

Happiness - in part at least - the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice waht we want for what we want eventually

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

But knowing I need to listen and knowing how to listen is not enough. Unless I want to listen, unless I have the desire, it won't be a habit in my life. Creating a habit requires work in all three dimensions.

Satisfied needs do not motivate.