Quotes About Desire

I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.

Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us is more like acceleration than speed. Interest cannot be maintained at a constant level.

Thorn's reply to this involved a physically impossible sexual activity in conjunction with the edible but prickly fruit of a bromeliad.

Each day I lacerated myself thinking on her, but I didn't go back.

I remember being unusually pensive that May evening, perhaps it was the heat of Spring's first warm day which, encountering my thick winter blood, forced a dilution upward into a brain weary of straining the last six months to overcome freezing and the long absent thinning of blood stirred a weakening desire for the softer things, a nostalgia, yet a death, a precognition, if you will...

Better to be numb than plagued by longing for something that could never be.

We want what you no longer want.

but how can you live in the moment when all you want is for the moment to end?

I am legend. Yet every day I wish that I was not.

I long for the luxury of being impractical.

You should learn to relish the hunger more than the feast, lest you become a glutton.

Close enough to feel it, but not close enough to burn.

I don't want to be empty on the inside.

If love of money is the root of all evil, then having money is the root of all boredom. When you can have everything, you find there's nothing you really want. When you can do anything, you find there's nothing you really care to do. You become lazy. Life feels like a boulder you don't want to lift.

Apparently Quinn had woken up a short time ago and immediately asked for ice cream, knowing that kids in hospitals got whatever they wanted.

At last, he allows himself the wonderful luxury of hope.

I wanted to take everything I was feeling, put it in a cannon and aim it at him.

There was never anything wrong with my life. Perhaps that was the problem... The crack in my life was the fact that I had everything I wanted, or could ever want—and when you have it all, boredom grows like a fungus, coating everything you own and everything you feel.

You think just because we got stars up here we can wish on 'em and make everything better

You want to be left alone, but you're afraid to be left alone, but you're afraid to not be left alone.

Between them, the baby still cries. It's like a game of steal the bacon, where no one wants to take the bacon.

I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now.

His broken body wanted to hurt, but it was forbidden to. He remembered thinking, in his opiate-induced delirium, how sad it must be for a body to want something so badly and to be completely denied.

All he ever wanted was a comfortable chair and a place in history. Well, he was robbed of one and died in the other.