Quotes About Desire

El amor es como una enfermedad rebelde, que solo con el amor se cura, una enfermedad de la que el paciente no quiere curar, de la que el enfermo no quiere curar, de la que el enfermo no quiere recuperarse (...)

It's always going to be like this, isn't it? she thought frantically. Whatever I want to do, it'll never be what Mom wants. And eventually, I'll start to forget what I wanted, and it'll be like I was never there at all.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

The young people come along, and clamor so loudly for their share, and have so little idea of the pain that awaits them. One's heart aches at the knowledge, but one cannot tell them; they have to have their own way and pay their own penalties.

for he seemed to have but one rule: to think of everything that ten thousand Württembergers could possibly want, and promise it to them, to be delivered on the day when they would elect the candidates

Their frail human nature was subjected to a strain greater than it was made for; the fires of greed had been lighted in their hearts, and fanned to a white heat that melted every principle and every law.

Which is better, to vote for what you want and can't get, or to vote for what you don't want and get it?

How terrible it would have been, at this time, to be without it; to have died among the Tulsis, amid the squalour of that large, disintegrating and indifferent family; to have left Shama and the children among them, in one room; or worse, to have lived without even attempting to lay claim to one's portion of the earth; to have lived and died as one had been born, unnecessary and unaccommodated.

And so my satisfactions had only been brothel satisfactions, which hadn't been satisfactions at all.

My wish for an adventure with Yvette was a wish to be taken up to the skies, to be removed from the life I had – the dullness, the pointless tension, 'the situation of the country'. It wasn't a wish to be involved with people as trapped as myself.

Confronted with her, I shed old fantasies. My body obeyed its new impulses, discovered in itself resources that answered my new need.

Art can be thought of as a form of visual foreplay before the climax.

She'd cook like an angel and fuck like a whore

finally to have a sex life, even if it was deeper in the closet than Narnia.

Oh, for that first hit of the day, the blessed nicotine hitting the bloodstream and snapping the synapses to attention.

I reckon most people that chase money only do it because they don't really know what it is they do want.

My own ultraviolet darling. Lolita

for did it not mean I was losing my darling, just when I had secretly made her mine?

He had lived without her before. He could get over it! In a year or so he'd be able to walk straight past her without his heart so much as missing a beat. He needed her as much as a drunk needs a cork! But he understood all too quickly how vain these thoughts were. How can you tear something out of your heart? Your heart isn't made out of paper and your life isn't written down in ink. You can't erase the imprint of years.

Several times a day Viktor passed his hand over his chest, over the jacket pocket where he kept it. Once, when the pain seemed unbearable, he thought, "If I hide it away somewhere, I might slowly start to calm down. As things are, this letter's like an open grave." But he knew that he would sooner destroy himself than part with this letter that had, by some miracle, managed to find its way to him.

Success belongs to those who have these two attributes: • An insatiable desire to learn • An unquenchable bias for action

So sweet and delicious do I become, when I am in bed with a man who, I sense, loves and enjoys me, that the pleasure I bring excels all delight, so the knot of love, however tight it seemed before, is tied tighter still.

The life is cruel death to me without you.

My happiness is measured in Inches, 2, 4, 6, 8, .... I LOVE SHOES TOO MUCH....