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Quotes About Desire

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.
~ Bertolt Brecht
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
~ Bertolt Brecht
I want to go with the one I love. I do not want to calculate the cost. I do not want to think about whether it's good. I do not want to know whether he loves me. I want to go with whom I love...
~ Bertolt Brecht
Im Zustand der gefüllten Samenblase sieht der Mann in jedem Weib Aphrodite.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Von den Leben, die hellen. Von den Toden, die schnellen ORGES WÜNSCHLISTE
~ Bertolt Brecht
Dogsborough: That stock-offering was like the bowl of salted nuts They put on the bar for free: satisfies your hunger for nothing, But leaves you with a costly thirst.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
~ Bertolt Brecht
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment
~ Bertrand Russell
Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love
~ Bertrand Russell
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
~ Bertrand Russell
What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.
~ Bertrand Russell
It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
~ Bertrand Russell
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~ Bertrice Small
For all his worldliness he was shocked. He was afraid she was becoming corrupted. He had only to suggest she lift her hips a fraction higher or arch her back rather more sharply for her to comply at once. She began to add certain embellishments of her own. On their third night she ordered him quite roughly to bring his legs closer together and found a way of rubbing herself against his knee while sucking at his neck that made him shudder.
~ Beryl Bainbridge
Dikeledi could make no secret of the fact that, in relation to men, she often suffered from high blood pressure, except that the trouble with the bloodstream had eventually boiled down to one, unattainable man.
~ Bessie Head
I find all men to be very much like wearing high-healed shoes--I love how pretty they make me feel, but by the end of the night I can't wait to get rid of them.
~ beth hoffman
I find all men to be very much like wearing high-heeled shoes - I love how pretty they make me feel, but by the end of the night I can't wait to get rid of them.
~ beth hoffman
But lately," she said, wiggling her bare toes, "I find all men to be very much like wearing high-heeled shoes—I love how pretty they make me feel, but by the end of the night I can't wait to get rid of them.
~ beth hoffman
The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.
~ Beth Kephart
Love is what you give and love is what you want and love is how you wait, but it doesn't save you
~ Beth Kephart
Love is what you give and love is what you want and live is how you wait, but it doesn't save you
~ Beth Kephart
Memoir is the life wanting to be transformed. It is the life we have been waiting for.
~ Beth Kephart