Quotes About Desire

Venere bellissima! è qui la tempesta che mi ha strappato dall'assennatezza sotto cui mi riparavo. Cupido e Amore, allora, sono piovuti nel mio petto e ormai per me non c'è più rimedio. Nel mio cuore le pareti sono marce, la casa va tutta in rovina

Want! You must want something. What do you want?

O for a beakerful of the warm South!

We're never too old for dreams.

Look the stars are out. Don't you wish you could reach out and pick them like flowers?" "I hadn't thought of it." "Life. That's the way life is to me, Howard. You keep picking things until you get the one thing that really matters. Tell me about your great love.

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. But there'd been no struggle. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.

One thing that capitalism cannot function with is people that accept that failure is itself success. Because you have to be bent upon success in order to be a good capitalist subject. If you accept that 'I'm never going to get that object I desire,' then you are no longer seduced by accumulation or advertising.

Psychoanalysis, however, calls into question the idea that we primarily act on behalf of our own interest. It allows us to see another power operating beneath the apparent predominance of self-interest. Of course, the commonsensical understanding of psychoanalysis is exactly the opposite of this, contending that psychoanalysis reduces everything to self-interest.

Nonstop motion becomes our way of trying to assure ourselves that we are not lacking—that is, nonenjoying—subjects.

Gaisma ir p?r?k s?p?ga t?dam, kas v?las palikt tums?.

Growing into an environment in which everyone else seems bigger and more powerful, every child seeks to gain what they need by the easiest route.

A desire for recognition emerges at the same time as a sense of inferiority.

people who feel themselves inferior have a pathological desire to disprove their own perceptions.

A man had to have something, he reasoned, to lose his mind in, at least once a day.

ambition on a beer budget.

The arts and soldiering took time to acquire – time and discipline and desire. No, he was up against bullies. And bullies were cowards. These were mercenaries who acted for money. Shot as, on the other hand, took great pride that he performed his DUTIES for love of country and, though he didn't quite think of it in those terms, for love of his fellow soldiers.

appears that they want what the Russians have, the new oil and gold discoveries.

and the real problem was that not all that many people truly wanted to die before turning thirty. And those who did used bombs.

We always want what we're not allowed.

The worst punishment there is for wanting the wrong thing is getting it.

Suddenly, she was not pretty at all; she looked like a thousand-year-old teenager who wanted something she knew she couldn't have.

Phaedra] wasn't perfect, by any stretch of the imagination, but I would willingly have trade all my prizes in the Festivals, even the prize for the Demes, just to have known her a little better.

Booze had never been one of his problems; but, given his present circumstances, he could see no reason why he shouldn't go for the complete set.

Then she did what she'd wanted to do for ages. She let it pour.