Quotes About Desire

De repente echa a correr por su vida De repente tiene una palabra que es suficiente De repente da todo por sentado De repente sabe exactamente lo que quiere La verdad es un proceso que se quiere ocultar pero nadie puede ocultar un fragmentado proceso

How could she tell her that sometimes people didn't get what they wanted? That maybe they were wrong to ever want it in the first place.

Dopo tutto, si giudicano gli altri solo in base al proprio cuore: l'avaro vede sempre la gente spinta dall'interesse, il lussurioso dall'ossessione del desiderio.

And besides, in the end, perhaps love demands marble palaces, white peacocks and swans.

Un po' più tardi andarono a coricarsi e, nel calore, del letto, assaporarono un amore che non era che l'ombra dell'antico amore, ma che, nutrito dai ricordi del passato, da un'appassionata volontà di oblio, talvolta rifioriva e prendeva vita.

Come sempre all'indomani di ogni catastrofe, ci sarebbero stati nuovi ricchi, uomini pronti a comprare il piacere pagandolo a caro prezzo, perché il loro era denaro facile, ottenuto senza fatica, e l'amore sarebbe stato sempre lo stesso.

your eyes quench my thirst.

Ancora un'ora persa, sprofondata nel nulla, che è colata via tra le dita come acqua e che non tornerà più... Vorrei andarmene lontano, oppure morire....

La sua vita trascorreva in una continua alternanza tra il desiderio di solitudine e quello di compagnia. «Nessuno come me avrà sprecato tante energie nella conversazione più futile, e nessuno avrà tanto detestato la gente»

Such madness. When you're 20, love is like a fever. It makes you almost delirious. When it's over, you can hardly remember how it happened. Fire in the blood, how quickly it burns out.

Non era il piacere che gli aveva procurato a legarlo così intensamente a lei. Era qualcos'altro, che nasceva in una zona più sottile della carne, più calda dell'anima.

Cómo había que apresurarse en vivir, Dios mío, en agradar a los hombres, en amar... El dinero, los vestidos y los coches bonitos, ¿de qué servía todo eso sin un hombre en tu vida, un pretendiente, un joven amante?

Charmaine was Miss Vamp, provocative and come-hithery in floor-length white silk cut clear to her navel; Dave and Shep were provoked and went thither.

What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone's company you love them.

Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.

I think I fell in love with you when you were shouting at Romeo and Juliet, 'Don't touch each other!')

How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but whose strength or temperament fails them to surrender the world completely; and present-day society, with its hurried pace and its mechanical and technical structure, offers no home to these unhappy souls.

She felt intense disappointment, even a kind of guilt, as if she had missed something, perhaps forever. He had been there, she could have spoken to him. Could she call out now, cry his name? It was impossible.

Your infatuation will end in tears.

A love without reservation ought to be a life force compelling the world into order and beauty. But that love can be so strong and yet so entirely powerless is what breaks the heart.

Somehow I've always wanted the ones that didn't want me. I'm the absolute queen bee of unrequited love.

He also wanted to destroy something, everything, perhaps himself.