Quotes About Desire

That afternoon of mist and drizzle, Clara Barcelo stole my heart, my breath, and my sleep. In the haunted shade of the Ateneo, her hands wrote a curse on my skin that was to hound me for years.

For me, Nuria Montfort was like a mirage: you don't question its veracity, you simply follow it until it vanishes or until it destroys you.

Death does that:It makes everyone feel sentimental when in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.

Now, back in the reality that always lies in wait among the shadows of the Ensanche quarter, the enchantment was lifting, and all I had was painful desire and an indescribable restlessness.

I know you're not a man of faith, Edmond, but faith is found when one isn't looking for it and the day will come when your heart, and not your mind, will long for the purification of the soul.

And what am I to do? Well, that depends. Do you like the girl? Like her? I don't know. How do you know if...? It's very simple. Do you look at her furtively and feel like biting her? Biting her? On her backside, for example.

Le donne, con rare eccezioni, sono più intelligenti di noi o, perlomeno, più sincere con se stesso rispetto a ciò che vogliono. Che poi te lo facciano sapere è un altro paio di maniche.

A mesquinhez dos homens' — costumava dizer — 'é um pavio em busca da chama'.

men, as is more than evident, respond, contrariwise, to the dictates of their genital and digestive organs.

Az ember nem veszi észre, mennyi kapzsiság gyülemlett fel a szívében, amíg meg nem hallja a zsebében a pénz édes csilingelését.

Pense en lo poco que tenia que ofrecerle y en lo mucho que queria recibir de ella

Cuanto más se le intenta ocultar algo a un niño, más empeño pone este en encontrarlo, ya sea un dulce o una postal de coristas descocadas dándoles vuelo a sus encantos.

No tenía sueño, ni ganas de tentarlo.

la mujer desea lo contrario de lo que piensa o declara

Quelle erano le parole che voleva sentirsi dire, e alla fine cedette alla tentazione di crederci.

Inimene ei tea, kui palju ahnust tema südames peitub, enne kui on kuulnud hõbeda meelitavat kõlinat oma taskutes.

All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

Dios solo escucha cuando uno suplica lo que no necesita.

Zavist je slijepac koji ti želi iskopati o?i.

Como nos enseña Freud, la mujer desea lo contrario de lo que piensa o declara

Sé que no es usted hombre de fe, Edmond, pero la fe se encuentra cuando no se busca y llegará el día en que sea su corazón, no su mente, el que anhele la purificación del alma.

Entretanto, sentirse deseada y apreciada bastaba para quemar la soledad y la nostalgia de cuanto había dejado atrás.

Las últimas horas habían transcurrido en otro mundo, un universo de roces, de miradas que no entendía y que se comían la razón y la vergüenza. Ahora, de regreso a aquella realidad que siempre acechaba en las sombras del ensanche, el embrujo se desprendía y apenas me quedaba el deseo doloroso y una inquietud que no tenía nombre.

W wanted to remember Miguel but the fire of those hands on my stomach stole all my shame and my grief. I wanted to lose myself in them, even though I knew that at dawn, exhausted and perhaps overcome by contempt for ourselves, we would be unable to look each other in the eye without wondering what short of people we had become.