Quotes About Desire

good sex, a hot shower, then bacon? Did a morning get any better?

And I want a mansion in Connecticut with a pool boy named Steve.

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything. PUBLILIUS SYRUS Money

Erotica so he'd last longer.

Maybe that was one of the purposes of sex. To isolate you, for a little while, from everything but yourself and your lover. To allow you to focus in on your body, its needs, the gratification that was physical and—if you were lucky in that lover—emotional as well. Without those pockets of solitude and sensation, you might just go mad.

Another time, another place, I'd back you to that wall right there, or any place you wanted to go, and do everything in my power to wipe him from your mind.

Roger] "Do you know how amazingly beautiful you are to me?" "As beautiful as you are to me." She slid her gaze down then back up with one of those secret smiles that played havoc with a man's mind. He shook his head. "Nah, I couldn't be, because you'd be insane with your need to just watch me. You'd ache every moment to just touch me. Your nights would be consumed with dreams of me and you'd live every moment just to love me.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

If only we could eat our sunsets, I say, we would all be full.

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange. It is only by alienating the desired that language masters it. The frenzy of desire in the medium of words yields the mania of the catalogue. I struggle with the proverbs of hell.

And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant

Vengeance is like a fire. The more it devours, the hungrier it gets.

Resulta extraño añorar lo jamás tenido, aquello de lo que nunca ha formado parte. Resulta extraño tener una sensación elegíaca acerca de un pasado que en realidad nunca ha conocido

Suicide, I had understood, is an act not of body against itself but of the will against the body

Auf den Stachel des Begehrens haben wir nur eine Antwort: fangen, einschließen, festhalten.

Resulta extraño añorar lo jamás tenido, aquello de lo que nunca ha formado parte. Resulta extraño tener una sensación elíaca acerca de un pasado que en realidad nunca ha conocido

Vergnügen ist Mangelware, aber an Schmerz ist heute überall ranzukommen.

Worte entfremden. Sprache ist kein Medium für Begehren. Begehren ist Hingerissensein, nicht Austausch. Nur dadurch, dass die Sprache das Begehrte entfremdet, beherrscht sie es.

Me falta algo, Eugenio. Sé que no debería ser así, pero lo es. La vida que tengo no me basta.

From the most beautiful creatures our lust rises... so that the beauty of rose could never die.

Women are sensitive to it, to the weight of the desiring gaze.

Sin embargo, apostaría a que si mañana te ofreciese toda la pasión que necesitas, pasión a carretadas, no tardarías en echar en falta alguna otra cosa.

Esta insatisfacción constante, ese anhelo de algo que echas en falta, es una forma de pensar de la que, en mi opinión, nos hemos librado.

Esta insatisfacción constante, ese anhelo de algo que echas en falta, es una forma de pensar de la que, en mi opinión, nos hemos librado. No nos falta nada. Lo que tú crees echar en falta es una ilusión. Vives por una ilusión.