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Quotes About Desire

A sadness like a coqui that has been told to remain silent and I wanted Taina to sing...
~ Ernesto Quiñónez
As the sick man does not skip and leap around, his wishes do so all the more.
~ Ernst Bloch
The fascination emanating as usual from the historical material itself prevailed over any desire of practical or moral application and, needless to say, preceded any afterthought.
~ Ernst H. Kantorowicz
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
~ Ernst Mach
Les lèvres d'une femme m'émeuvent quand elles s'approchent, nues, pour un baiser, elles se déshabillent entièrement, du haut des mots jusqu'en bas.
~ Erri De Luca
La primera pareja humana, creada en un jardín el sexto día, tuvo por encima de ella la primera noche inconmensurable. Sin saberlo elllos, despuntó en sus cuerpos el apetito, la sed, el entusiasmo y el soeño. (...) no sabian si regresaría el sol, de modo que se abrazaron. Las bocas se vieron juntas e inventaron el beso, el primer fruto del conocimiento.
~ Erri De Luca
Comme tous les autres je désirais un chien, impossible à obtenir dans notre peu d'espace. Je me pris d'affection pour une balle jaune aux mille couleurs passées et sa bonne odeur de caoutchouc. Quand j'étais seul dans la pièce, la balle, de joie, me sautait dessus et jouait à ne pas se laisser prendre. Tout à coup ma mère criait d'arrêter et la balle craintive allait finir sous le lit.
~ Erri De Luca
Quando l'amore manca la volontà non basta.
~ Erri De Luca
Quand elle s'élançait soudain en courant du parasol vers la mer sans avertir personne, je ne courais pas derrière elle pour ne pas m'exposer au ridicule, mais je la suivais tout le temps de sa baignade avec la tension d'un chien à la chaîne.
~ Erri De Luca
Bisogna dunque tendere a ciò che si vuole, facendo quel che si può.
~ Errico Malatesta
But communism must be voluntary, freely desired, and accepted; for were it instead to be imposed, it would produce the most monstrous tyranny which would result in a return to bourgeois individualism.
~ Errico Malatesta
He still could not understand why he had nothing, and would never have anything, and there was no one who knew and who could tell him. It was the unsolved mystery of his life.
~ Erskine Caldwell
Next to want, boredom has become the worst scourge in our lives.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
There comes a time in every woman's life when she is desperately desires to be married. At least, this is what I have always been told by my father. I am beginning to doubt his word of the subject. I am officially, as of one week, twenty-three years old and haven't the slightest inkling of matrimony or desperation
~ Erynn Mangum
To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.
~ Esi Edugyan
Her lips was hot, like the ridge of a cooking dish.
~ Esi Edugyan
What a strange journey we embarked upon that afternoon, full of anguish and desire and wonder.
~ Esi Edugyan
Envy, Doña Lola had once said, eats at you from the inside and turns your eyes green when you look at the person of whom you're jealous.
~ Esmeralda Santiago
Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.
~ ESTHER DE WAAL
Never mind what is. Imagine it the way you want it to be so that your vibration is a match to your desire. When your vibration is a match to your desire, all things in your experience will gravitate to meet that match every time.
~ Esther Hicks
It makes no difference whether you want the specifics of it or not; it is the vibrational essence of the subject of your attention that is attracted. That which you really, really want, you get—and that which you really, really do not want, you get.
~ Esther Hicks
When joy is really important to you, you do not allow yourself to focus upon things that do not feel good—and the result of thinking only thoughts that feel good would cause you to create a wonderful life filled with all things that you desire.
~ Esther Hicks
When you are focused upon something that you desire, then through the Law of Attraction, more and more thoughts about what you desire will be drawn, and you will feel greater positive emotion. You can speed the creation of something simply by giving it more attention—the Law of Attraction takes care of the rest and brings to you the essence of the subject of your thought.
~ Esther Hicks
the combination of being more deliberate about what you want, more clear about what you intend, and more sensitive to the way you feel is, in essence, what the Deliberate Creative Process is all about.
~ Esther Hicks