Quotes About Desire

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became like a chain binding down his spirit and like a serpent gnawing into his heart.

Like all other joys, she rejected it as sin.

he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.

My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire, I longed to kindle one!

I want my happiness! . . . Many, many years have I waited for it! It is late! It is late! I want my happiness!

I have thought of death, said she - have wished for it - would even have prayed for it, were it fit that such as I should pray for anything.

Little Pearl, Hester's young child, fulminates with unconscious aggression in the wild tantrums that, Hawthorne says, reflect the illicit desire with which she was conceived.

She wanted--what some people want throughout life--a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanise and make her capable of sympathy.

ambition is a talisman more powerful than witchcraft.

When men seek only to be trampled upon, it were a pity to deny them a favor so easily granted - and so well deserved!

Habría querido ser amada, no temida - murmuró Beatrice, desplomándose en el suelo-. Pero ahora y no importa.

You are fighting for what you can never obtain, and we are defending what we never mean to part with.

In the end, both sides wanted what the Pilgrims had been looking for in 1620: a place unfettered by obligations to others.

As a child I first became aware that my existence had a purpose when I realized men lusted after me. And that's why I will lust forever after men. Before I even began to worry about homework or any of those school things, I began having secret liaisons with men. And it is men who give me the proof I need now to feel I'm alive.

Someone speak to me. Call out to me and take me out. Please, please, I'm begging you, say something kind to me. Tell me I'm pretty, tell me I'm sweet. Invite me out for coffee, or more... Tell me that you want to spend the day with me and me alone.

My lascivious blood leaves me no choice but to lust for men. No matter how common I become, how ugly, how old, as long as there is life in my body I will go on wanting men. That's just my fate. Even if men are no longer amazed when they see me, even if they no longer desire me, even if they belittle me, I have to sleep with them. No, I want to sleep with them. It's the retribution for a divinity that no one can sustain forever. I suppose you could say my 'power' was little more than sin.

Here was a man who wanted what no one had wanted before: he wanted to get to know the inner workings of the doll-like woman who was me. Karl wasn't interested in me; neither was Johnson. But Kijima's father liked me for who I was. The realization left me feeling numb. I was touched. But being touched is not the same as feeling desire. And I didn't exist without desire. If I didn't exist, then what?

Izanami - over the long years that she had handed out death - had become a true goddess, and not just that: the quintessential destroyer […] she was the goddess who invited our desire and also our defilement; she bore the weight of the past and lived on into the future for ever. The realisation filled me with overwhelming awe.

Karl wasn't interested in me; neither was Johnson. But Kijima's father liked me for who I was. The realization left me feeling numb. I was touched. But being touched is not the same as feeling desire. And I didn't exist without desire. If I didn't exist, then what?

If there was a reason why people were attracted to one another, she wished someone would tell her.

He didn't want to rape her; he just wanted her to be nice to him.

Era sufficiente rimuovere una piccola pietra scaldata dal sole per scoprire la terra umida e fresca. E lei, in quel momento, voleva assaporare a fondo l'oscurità del lato nascosto al sole.

In this world there are people who prefer beauty after it's gone away or the dregs of a prosperity depleted.