Quotes About Desire

Se vuoi qualcosa con tutte le tue forze, prima o poi la ottieni

My ego says it must be me they're after

He would be provided for even if he made no discernible contribution to the world - and right now he had no desiire to contribute anything to the world but his bodily waste.

Czy ludzie mogli zrobi? co? takiego? Czy mogliby?my walczy? ze sob? o te ratuj?ce ?ycie maszyny, zamieniaj?c je w sterty bezu?ytecznego metalu? Czy mogliby?my tak mocno pragn?? wody, ?e byliby?my gotowi zniszczy? urz?dzenia zdolne j? dla nas wytworzy? - tylko po to, ?eby otrzyma? pierwszy ?yk?

Although we all have what we need, we're still allowed to strive for the things we want.

Copper aspires to gold, and glass to a precious gem

Her appetite was a casualty of the day.

Well, she could learn self-control tomorrow. Today she wanted pizza.

She took a few steps toward him but stopped – as if getting too close would burst some bubble, breaking the spell, and this tenuous night vision of Rowan would dissolve into nothing. But he ran toward her, and she found she was running, too, as if she had no control over her own legs. Perhaps she and Rowan had both grown so much larger than life that the gravity between them was too intense to resist. When they embraced, they nearly knocked each other off their feet.

He cannot deny how much he loves her - and the pain of that longing is enough to make him know that he lives. That he is. For how could he feel such anguish if he had no soul? Yet in many ways he feels as if she took his soul with her when she left.

I know that feeling intimately. It's where I live. I eat, sleep, and dream of the void, and whenever it calls my name, I'm there in the front row ready to answer.

we longed for healing and happiness—as if happiness is a state of being. But it's not. Happiness is a vector. It's movement.

Qué irónico, pues, y qué poético, que la humanidad haya creado al Creador por el deseo de tener uno. El hombre crea a Dios, que a su vez crea al hombre. ¿No es el perfecto círculo de la vida? Pero, si tal es el caso, ¿quién ha sido creado a imagen de quién?

Therein lies the paradox of the profession," Faraday said. "Those who wish to have the job should not have it . . . and those who would most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.

Another part of him wanted to howl to the moon like a wolf.

He was safe. He was protected. What more could he ask for? Everything.

It's time, Old Captain, lift anchor, sink! The land rots; we shall sail into the night; if now the sky and sea are black as ink our hearts, as you must know, are filled with light. Only when we drink poison are we well — we want, this fire so burns our brain tissue, to drown in the abyss — heaven or hell, who cares? Through the unknown, we'll find the new. (Le Voyage)

The child, in love with prints and maps, Holds the whole world in his vast appetite. How large the earth is under the lamplight! But in the eyes of memory, how the world is cramped!

It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance

Acel ce-ÅŸi strânge lacom iubita-n braÅ£e pare Un muribund ce-n tain? mormântul ÅŸi-l dezmiard?.

For I desire the dark, the naked, and the lone.

Je ne suis pas le Styx pour t'embrasser neuf fois.

Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!

Fruit free of any bruises, not yet broken open, / With flesh so firm and smooth, it cried out to be eaten!