Quotes About Desire

The telephone voice is but a seduction, a bread crumb to an appetite.

What do you do when the dead return? It is the thing people most fear- yet, in some cases, most desire

neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Somethings hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle. Which side wins? Love wins. Love always wins.

Kadang-kadang, kalau tidak mendapatkan cinta yang kau inginkan, dengan memberi kau pikir kau akan mendapatkannya.

if i could have had another son, i would have liked it to be you

With his power over time, Dor could have taken anything he desired from this new world. But a man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying.

There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need," Morrie said. "You need food, you want a chocolate sundae. You have to be honest with yourself. You don't need the latest sports car, you don't need the biggest house. "The truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction?" What? "Offering others what you have to give." You

So," she said, moving away, "now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

With his power over time, For could have taken anything he desired from this new world. But a man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.

He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow. Victor never prayed

I missed the crowds in those big stadiums, the flashbulbs, the roaring cheers - the majesty of the whole thing. I missed it bitterly. So did my father. We shared a thirst to return; unspoken, undeniable.

He explained how once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied. There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between sunrises was gone. "Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour?" Dor said. "It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.

we're deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us.

and his mind raced ahead of him, beckoning him to follow.

The lust for power is combustible thing

You made me love you I didn't want to do it I didn't want to do it.… You made me love you and all the time you knew it

And thus, unknowingly, did Dor begin to serve his sentence— to hear every plea from every soul who desired more of the thing he had first identified, the thing that moved man further from the simple light of existence and deeper into the darkness of his own obsessions. Time. It seemed to be running too fast for everyone but him.

These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for sense of comradeship. When you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for. You don't get satisfaction from those things.

Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more—to be richer, more beautiful, more well known—you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come.

We burn for water, we growl for food. But what we yearn for most is comfort. A soft embrace. Someone to whisper "It's all right. It's all right.

only when he saw the hut made of reeds, did he slow his pace, as man does when he approaches what he desires, uncertain if it can possibly be all he hoped.

We all search for something to save us. He thinks it is him.

Now you know how badly someone wanted you Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden. Instead of a wish granted.