Quotes About Desire

Las almas como la de María ignoran el lenguaje mundano del amor; pero se doblegan estremeciéndose á la primera caricia de aquél á quien aman, como la adormidera de los bosques bajo el ala de los vientos.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Yo soy quien libre me vi, yo, quien pudiera olvidaros: yo soy el que, por amaros, estoy, desque os conocí, sin Dios y sin vos y mí.

This is freedom. This is the force of faith. Nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing is to be pure. What you get is to be changed.

I seek new perfumes, ampler blossoms, untried pleasures.

Curious, a man's affection for the object that he manipulates.

He desired a troubled indecision on which he might brood until he could shape it at will to a more vague or determinate form, according to the momentary state of his soul.

No, she wanted me to beg her to do what she wanted to do. Like all women, she wanted me to offer her what she desired. I have been rolled.

His behaviour was like that of the conscious or unconscious demonomaniacs who do evil for evil's sake. They are no more mad than the rapt monk in his cell, than the man who does good for good's sake. Anybody but a medical theorist can see that the desire for good and the desire for evil simply form the two opposing poles of the soul.

Mme. Chantelouve would never realize the ideal he had fashioned for himself, the tantalizing features, the agile, wild animal body, the melancholy and ardent bearing, which he had dreamed. Indeed, the mere fact of knowing the unknown rendered her less desirable, more vulgar. Accessibility killed the chimera.

In attempting to fan her flame I kindled myself

She embodied his need to soar upward from the terrestrial humdrum.

One must bow to nature's law if one is neither impotent nor a saint.

Indeed, the mere fact of knowing the unknown rendered her less desirable, more vulgar. Accessibility killed the chimera.

El deseo de vivir y convivir sin miedo, sin miseria, sin violencia es uno de los grandes impulsos que mueven la historia y que los poderosos han tenido que respetar, al menos nominalmente.

La historia de la poesía amorosa podría dividirse en poética del deseo, poética del objeto de deseo y poética de los sentimientos que acompañan al deseo.

Why were you following me? Or were you after me? No, you weren't after me. It was just that someone, and the someone had to be you, was upsetting the balance of the emptiness of my nights, in which nothing could touch me - not even memories, not even desire - in which there was no other presence to threaten my vulnerability.

Me estoy muriendo de aburrimiento en este pueblo y yo no quiero morirme debajo de una muralla de adobe desplomada, yo tengo derecho a ver un poco de luz yo que nunca he salido de este hoyo, porque me engañaron para que me quedara aquí diciéndome que la Japonesita es hija mía.

hambrienta de otra piel, de cualquier piel con tal que fuera caliente y que se pudiera morder y apretar y lamer, los hombres no se daban cuenta ni con qué se acostaban, perro, vieja, cualquier cosa.

Que las limitaciones del amor no arrojen un hechizo sobre las serias ambiciones de tu mente»

May the limitations of love not cast a spell On the serious ambitions of my mind.

Dicen que murió de frío. Yo sé que murió de amor.

KastettiÄŸim onu kalbimde öldürmek. Ä°yiliÄŸini istemekten vazgeçmek. Derken bir gün ölüp gidecek.

Daha çok anlat.' dedim. 'Çok. Elimden gelse seninle sekiz yüz elli iki bin kilometre hiç durmadan konuÅŸurdum.' 'Bu kadar yola nas?l benzin yetiÅŸtiririz?' 'Gider gibi yapar?z.