Quotes About Desire

And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes merely a constant, painful reminder of what they've lost, forever.

If God's suggesting that I am expected to do good and also obligated to manufacture a genuine desire for it, this boat's sunk, still sitting on the trailer in the driveway. A stack of things need to happen before I desire to be good…

And recently, we installed another word in its place which, to their minds, has a wholly positive connotation. We say 'Gluttony'. They say 'Consumerism'.

If we blind them to The Adversary —decrease their desire for The Desire— while at the same time encourage them to do anything else they desire with increasing "freedom of choice," then eventually we snuff out desire while leaving demand in tact.

Shaga: How would you like to die, little man? Tyrion: In my bed, at the age of eighty with a belly full of wine and a woman's mouth around my cock.

Meine Seele, meine Seele stinkt nach Brandewein. - Selbst das Geld geht in Verwesung über. Vergissmeinnicht. Wie ist dieses Welt so schön. Bruder, ich muss ein Regenfass voll greinen. Ich wollt unsre Nasen wären zwei Bouteillen und wir könnten sie uns einander in den Hals gießen.

I want night, deep ambrosial night.

Kannst du verhindern, daß unsere Köpfe sich auf dem Boden des Korbes küssen?

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle.

Es una lástima que beber agua no sea pecado, clama un italiano, ¡qué bien sabría!

The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants.

Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone.

Thus fashion represents nothing more than one of the many forms of life by the aid of which we seek to combine in uniform spheres of activity and the tendency towards social equalization with the desire for individual differentiation and change.

The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.

The first sign of extravagance is to buy trousers that one does not need.

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

Give the people what they think they want.

will is a bargaining situation, not an organ.

The Seven Year Itch

What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon, Mary.

One thing we hear from churchless and churched people alike is that they intensely desire the local church to provide what no other group can offer: an experience of the presence of God.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.