Quotes About Desire

Você deve ser forte, desejei convencê-lo. Deve pensar mais como eu. Ela é real, sim, mas também é uma invenção, um desejo derivado de sua própria necessidade. Em sua solidão, você se apegou ao primeiro rosto que chamou sua atenção. Poderia ter sido qualquer uma, você sabe. Afinal, é um homem, meu caro. Ela é apenas uma mulher e existem milhares iguais espalhadas por esta grande cidade.

Pouco importa, disse para si mesmo. Ela está em outro lugar, eu estou aqui, e nada posso fazer por ela.

What you don't know, boy, is that people have feelings that don't obey logic... Once you know true love, how could you settle for anything less?

There was love here, the voice said again. But whose love? Ico wondered. He had assumed Ozuma had been talking about the queen and her daughter--but maybe... From the very first time he had seen her, Ico had wanted to save Yorda. There had been no thought, no reason--when he saw her in the cage, he knew he had to set her free.

Everyone hates him. Me – I think I can see the sun shine when he bends over.

If life's not beautiful without the pain, well I'd just rather never ever even see beauty again.

Well see what you wanna see. You should see it all. Well take what you want from me. You deserve it all. Nine times out of ten our hearts just get dissolved. Well I want a better place or just a better way to fall.

It is the effect of scarcity; one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has won a portion of her affection.

I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.

Is getting filthy rich still your goal above all goals, your be-all and end-all, the mist-shrouded high-altitude spawning pond to your inner salmon?

Some men drink the blood of other men, all I drink is wine.

She sees how you diminish her solitude, and, more meaningfully, she sees you seeing, which sparks in her that oddest of desires an I can have for a you, the desire that you be less lonely.

Darashikoh was inside, for all the world a tastefully dressed patron of the shop, but he carried death in his undershorts and hunger in his heart.

He was a man who discovered love through his penis.

Saeed wanted to feel for Nadia what he had always felt for Nadia, and the potential loss of this feeling left him unmoored, adrift in a world where one could go anywhere but still find nothing.

one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to stay. That the impulse to live was in him stronger than he might have imagined, undiminished by his bleak circumstances.

It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself, (...), and life went on, and people found things to do and ways to be and people to be with, and plausible desirable futures began to emerge, unimaginable previously, but not unimaginable now, and the result was something not unlike relief.

Soon a rhythm was established, and it was thereafter rare that more than a few waking hours would pass without contact between them, and they found themselves in those early days of their romance growing hungry, touching each other, but without bodily adjacency, without release. They had begun, each of them, to be penetrated, but they had not yet kissed.

we learned to savor the denial of gratification—that most un-American of pleasures!—

Ozi made me feel so known. He made love to my insides, filling desperate gaps and calming unbearably sensitive places.

touching each other, but without bodily adjacency, without release. They had begun, each of them, to be penetrated, but they had not yet kissed.

Saeed partly resisted the pull of his phone. He found the antenna too powerful, the magic it summoned too mesmerizing, as though he were eating a banquet of limitless food, stuffing himself, stuffing himself, until he felt dazed and sick, and so he had removed or hidden or restricted all but a few applications.