Quotes About Desire

Then he returned to his theme: 'If so many lovers feel the desire to die and more and more die each day, while still in love, it is because love and death are linked by analogies, by underground passages, and communicate. One leads to the other. The one makes the other more acute, more intense. There is no doubt that death is a great stimulant of love. ("Love And Death")

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, and not Jack, that's all.

I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

I wish so much to go that I almost wish I had never been there.

RE: Lake George from a book by Lord. That's all I know. "There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees.... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces

Thus captain and crew enjoyed a life style above their means, one they were anxious to perpetuate.

the glitter and wink of the trapped fish inside it.

I don't want him drooling all over the place like a sex-starved spaniel.

The Invitation of Love If we want to set the relationship between efficiency and love in its rightful order, we must go beyond laws and proclamations. If we desire a more loving society, we individual persons must return to the deepest common sense of our hearts; we must claim love as our true treasure. Then comes the difficult part: we must try to live according to our desire in the moment-by-moment experiences of our lives.

While repression stifles desire, addiction attaches desire, bonds and enslaves the energy of desire to certain specific behaviors, things, or people. These objects of attachment then become preoccupations and obsessions; they come to rule our lives. The

In the great spiritual traditions of the world, attachments are seen as any concerns that usurp our desire for love, anything that becomes more important to us than God. Paul Tillich said that whatever we are ultimately concerned with is God for us. At any given moment, that with which we are most concerned is most likely to be something other than the true God. No matter how religious we may think we are, our addictions are always capable of usurping our concern for God.

Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that we do the same with our deepest longings for God. God does not always come to us in the pleasant ways we might expect, and so we repress our desire for God. When

I didn't fight the desire to drink anymore; I just did not drink.

beyond the east of the sunrise,beyond the west of the sea, and the east and west, the wander thirst. that will not let me be.

We can't all be like him, or his brother, or Helms, or the rest of those people.' 'No,' she said sadly. 'But I wish to God we could be something else.

But you, Lynet, you deserve something better." Lynet leaned forward, looking into Gaheris's eyes. "I've found something better," she murmured, and then she kissed him.

Paul Adams stood up quickly. "We have not lost, Bryce," he whispered fiercely. "Not so long as the desire for freedom burns in the heart of one person. We have not lost!

El sentido común nos dice por qué: si no está obteniendo lo que desea, es claro que cualquier cosa que haya realizado hasta este punto no está funcionando.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

Q. How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? A. Only one, if the bulb really wants to change.

She was loved by a man as a woman is meant to be loved.

I was like one who forgets all day to eat until the scent from some other's roasting pan reminds her she's ravenous.