Quotes About Desire

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly the air. –

An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, 'Come and find me, come and find me'.

The concept of genes driving people's appetite caused them to lose some control of their own.

And if, through this desire of ours to say something, or do something, you feel that you must open your mouth, then do this: choose one word or a little phrase which well expresses your love for him; and then go on repeating it in peace, without trying to form thoughts, motionless in love before God who is love.

What makes us unhappy is to want. Yet if we would learn to cut our wants to nothing, the smallest thing we'd get would be a true gift.

Apuré el último sorbo de café y ña contemplé en silencio unos instante. Pensé en lo mucho que deseaba refugiarme en aquella mirada huidiza que se temía transparente, vacía. Pensé en la soledad que iba a asaltarme aquella noche cuando me despidiece de ella, sin más trucos ni historias con que engañar su compañía. Pensé en lo poco que tenía que ofrecerle y en lo mucho que quería recibir de ella.

If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.

It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.

Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.

Keep your dreams, you will never know when you need them

Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.

One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.

With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman for the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.

Me incliné sobre ella y recorrí la piel de su vientre con la yema del dedo. Bea dejó caer los párpados, los ojos y me sonrió, segura y fuerte. -Hazme lo que quieras... -susurró. Tenía diecisiete años y la vida en los labios.

The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given wealth, fame, and power, yet his soul yearned only for spiritual peace so that he could silence the shadows in his heart...

Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.

Man's meanness is a fuse in search of a flame.

Envy is a blind man who wants to pull out your eyes.

Don't you feel like a little glass of rum? It's Cuban, like all the good stuff that kills you.

El modo más eficaz de hacer inofensivos a los pobres es enseñarles a querer imitar a los ricos.

Those who aren't able to fall in love suffer all the more.

You don't know what thirst is until you drink for the first time.

The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in my hands, I didn't know where to put it.

El dinero es como cualquier otro virus: una vez que pudre el alma del que lo alberga, parte en busca de sangre fresca.