Quotes About Desire

he hopes to be caught, sucked in, enveloped, and devoured. He seeks, as it were, the protecting, nourishing, charmed circle of the mother, the condition of the infant released from every care…No wonder the real world vanishes from sight!

It was then we found ourselves too many fields away from where we'd meant to be, with regard to desire, to get there ever, even if—though this was not the case—we'd been told the way.

about love, a sudden decision not to, to pretend instead to a kind of choice.

The ancient Greeks; the Romans after. How they made of love a wild god

Here — your shirt , he said, after. Lifting it. Bringing it to me as if it were not a shirt but a thing immaculate, or in flames, or— with a single sword positioned through it— a sacred heart.

I know, released, she won't come back. This is different from letting what, already, we count as lost go. It is nothing like that. Also, it is not like wanting to learn what losing a thing we love feels like, Oh yes: I love her.

Most people fantasize that if they won the lottery, they would quit their jobs and immerse themselves in leisure, play, family, parenthood, occasional thrilling sex; they'd eat when they were hungry and sleep whenever they felt sleepy. Many people, if they won the lottery and got rich quick, would want to live like elephants.

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud

Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love.

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

He lay there watching her, and when she continued to unbutton her dress, his smile widened. "Mr. Reed, you realize that if anything we do tonight causes you a medical problem, Mr. Wilburn will give you such a scold," she said, hoping that she sounded more serene than she felt. "I'm all aquiver about Mr. Wilburn," he said.

The one who gets you is the one who makes you forget you ever desired anything as dull and ridiculous as perfection.

My thoughts kept going back to what I had seen. I couldn't comprehend where all that hate came from, the desire to harm him. He was totally defenceless. But maybe that's exactly what attracted them. The knowledge that there wouldn't be any consequences. It was like he didn't exist, a creature like him . . . a merman . . . couldn't exist.

If only sugar were medicine! I should take it every day.

La nobiltà non fa per me. La ricchezza la stimo e non la stimo. Tutto il mio piacere consiste nel vedermi servita, desiderata, adorata. Questa è la mia debolezza, e questa è la debolezza di quasi tutte le donne...

Il mio voler sol di volere intende

Life is will-to-live, will is a lack, lack is pain, all life is pain.

If I am hungry,reality is nothing more to me than an ensemble of more or less edible things. If I am thirsty, reality is more or less liquid, and more or less potable. If I am sleepy, it is a great bed more or less hard.If I am not hungry, not thirsty, not sleepy, and do not need any other determinate thing, the world is a large ensemble of grays that are I don't know what but that certainly are not made to cheer me up.

To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt.

It was not the applications that motivated them but the natural desire to know.

as Lucretius wrote: 'our appetite for life is voracious, our thirst for life insatiable

The central point is rebellion against the renunciation of the desire to know. A declaration of faith in the comprehensibility of the world, a proud retaliation to those who remain satisfied with their own ignorance, who call "infinite" that which we don't understand and delegate knowledge elsewhere.

People will buy a product because of how it will make them feel, not because they "need" it. Create scarcity.