Quotes About Desire

Are there not moments, he asked William, when you would also do shameful things to get your hands on a book you have been seeking for years?

çünkü gündüz uykusu bedenin günah? gibidir. Ne denli çok iÅŸlenirse, o denli çok istenir.

Como embriagado, gozaba de la presencia de la muchacha en las cosas que veía, y, al desearla en ellas, viéndolas, mi deseo se colmaba. Y, sin embargo, en medio de tanta dicha, sentía una especie de dolor, en medio de todos aquellos fantasmas de una presencia, la penosa marca de una ausencia.

A szabadság tehát szenvedély, a szabadság akarása viszont cselekvés, és ez a különbség közöttem és a kÅ' között. Én akarhatok.

Amparo was conquered, and I felt a twinge of jealousy. I

C'è stato un tempo in cui ero tutto ambizione e smania di imparare, e giorno dopo giorno mi sentivo sconfortato per il fatto che madre natura in uno dei suoi momenti di clemenza non mi avesse stampato il marchio di quel genio che ogni tanto concede a qualcuno.

You mean that between desiring good and desiring evil there is a brief step, because it is always a matter of directing the will. This is true. But the difference lies in the object, and the object is clearly recognizable. God on this side, the Devil on that.

Somos nós que, diante dos opostos, acreditamos, conforme o nosso desejo, e a nossa paixão, que um deles seja o bem e o outro o mal.

the object of a desire, when desire is transformed into hope, becomes more real than reality itself

Åžimdi anl?yorum ki, istemin buyruÄŸunun kendini göstermesi gereken düÅŸünsen açl?kla insan tutkular?n?n öznesi olan duygusal açl?k aras?ndaki çeliÅŸkiden ötürü ac? çekiyormuÅŸum.

Il sonno diurno è come il peccato della carne: più se ne è avuto più se ne vorrebbe, eppure ci si sente infelici, sazi e insaziati allo stesso tempo.

Call Bogomil that whore you screw at night, with your heretic cock, you pig!

Je récapitule. Entrez dans une salle de ciné : si pour aller de A à B, les protagonistes mettent plus de temps que vous ne le souhaiteriez, alors c'est un film porno.

dienos miegas yra lyg k?no nuod?m?: kuo daugiau jos esi patyr?s, tuo daugiau jos trokšti, bet jautiesi nelaimingas, kartu sotus ir alkanas.

Soy culpable de su condenación, soy culpable de la condenación de todos los que se condenan, es justo que las tres mujeres no hayan sido mías: es el castigo por haberlas deseado. Pierdo la primera porque está en el paraíso, la segunda porque envidia en el purgatorio el pene que jamás tendrá, y la tercera porque está en el infierno. Teológicamente perfecto. Ya escrito.

The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.

O sea que, después de una vida de incertidumbres, entusiasmos y desilusiones, de vileza y de traición, al ver que ya nada podía hacer para evitar su ruina, decidía abrazar la fe de su juventud, sin seguir preguntándose si ésta era justa o equivocada, como si quisiera mostrarse a sí mismo que era capaz de creer en algo.

I felt dull and somnolent, for daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh: the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

El francés no sabe bien qué quiere, lo único que sabe a la perfección es que no quiere lo que tiene. Y para decirlo no sabe sino cantar canciones.

Elsewhere, on the contrary, the frantic desire for the Almost Real arises only as a neurotic reaction to the vacuum of memories; the Absolute Fake is offspring of the unhappy awareness of a present without depth. 

the frantic desire for the Almost Real arises only as a neurotic reaction to the vacuum of memories; the Absolute Fake is offspring of the unhappy awareness of a present without depth.

Palladism. Then I came to Paris. Maybe they wanted to

often the step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is very brief

The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maiden's?