Quotes About Desire

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Emotional relationships are relationships of desire, tainted by coercion and constraint; something is expected from the other person, and that makes him and ourselves unfree. Objective cognition lies hidden behind the attraction of the emotional relationship; it seems to be the central secret.

As a contemplative man I am an arrant realist, so that I am capable of desiring nothing from all the things that present themselves to me, and of wishing nothing added to them. I make no sort of distinction among objects beyond whether they interest me or not.42

But if those sensual pleasures fail the person who desires and wishes for them, he will suffer, pierced by the arrow of pain.

Having once made the bold conjecture that the libido which was originally employed in the production of ova and spermatozoa is now firmly organized in the function of nest-building, for instance, and can no longer be employed otherwise, we are compelled to regard every striving and every desire, including hunger and instinct however understood, as equally a phenomenon of energy.

the meaning of life is not exhaustively explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

An epoch is like an individual; it has its own limitations of conscious outlook, and therefore requires a compensatory adjustment. This is effected by the collective unconscious in that a poet, a seer or a leader allows himself to be guided by the unexpressed desire of his times and shows the way, by word or deed, to the attainment of that which everyone blindly craves and expects—whether this attainment results in good or evil, the healing of an epoch or its destruction.

You are a slave to what you need in your soul.

I wish you had.

There are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

getting their ashes hauled.

But wanting to change, and actually making it happen were two different things.

All is clouded by desire: as fire by smoke, as a mirror by dust ...Through these it blinds the soul.

Conscience,' Hobbey said with infinite sadness. 'I had one once. Ambition killed it.

He came to read; two or three books are lying open: history and poetry. But after just ten minutes of reading he lets them drop. There on the sofa he falls asleep. He truly is devoted to reading- but he is twenty-three years old, and very handsome. And just this afternoon, Eros surged within his perfect limbs and on his lips. Into his beautiful flesh came the heat of passion, and there was no foolish embarrassment about the form that pleasure took..

SETI SE, TELO... Telo, seti se ne samo koliko si bilo voljeno, ne jedino kreveta na kojima si ležalo, nego i onih želja, koja su zbog tebe iskrile u onim jasnim o?ima i drhtale u glasu – a neka ih je slu?ajna prepreka osujetila. Sada, kad je sve to ve? u prošlosti, izgleda skoro kao da si se onim željama i predavalo – kako su iskrile, seti se, u o?ima što su te gledale: kako su drhtale u glasu zbog tebe, seti se, telo.

You with me baby, cause there's no turning back after this, no way, once I slip into that sweet heat of yours, you're mine, do you hear me? You. Are. Fucking. Mine.

those for whom war is lucrative are rarely satiated.

She touched her hand to his cheek, and he turned toward her, his arms coming around her to draw her close, his cheek pressed to the side of her hair. She felt his chest lift against hers as he drew in a ragged breath and held her tight. And then he said the words she'd long thought she'd never hear. "God, how I love you, Hero. So much. So much...

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

I admire you. You have learned to rise with the wind, rather than fight it. Too many people struggle to become what is expected of them, when, as we both know, what is expected of us is rarely what we desire.

There are many ways to obtain our desires, ma petite. Remember that, for it will serve you well.

What we do not earn ourselves," he said, "is never truly ours.