Quotes About Desire

Il piacere umano (così probabilmente quello di ogni essere vivente, in quell'ordine di cose che noi conosciamo) si può dire ch'è sempre futuro, non è se non futuro, consiste solamente nel futuro. L'atto proprio del piacere non si dà. Io spero un piacere; e questa speranza in moltissimi casi si chiama piacere.

divertirli quanto più si potesse dal conversare col proprio animo, o almeno col desiderio di quella loro incognita e vana felicità.

e il naufragar m'è dolce in questo mare.

E così sentir parlare di quella persona, mi scuote e tormenta come a chi si tastasse o palpeggiasse una parte del corpo addoloratissima, e spesso mi fa rabbia e nausea... Diario del primo amore

Cuando ni siquiera me era grata, huyendo del placer, la sonrisa de los astros, el silencio de la aurora o el verdear del prado. Hasta de la gloria callaba amor ahora, y si en otro tiempo me inflamaba tanto, hoy sólo de la belleza era morada.

io mi sentiva il cuore molto molle e tenero, e alla cena osservando gli atti e i discorsi della Signora, mi piacquero assai, e mi ammollirono sempre più; e insomma, la Signora mi premeva molto... Diario del primo amore

Quasi incredibil parmi Che la vita infelice e il mundo sciocco Gia per gran tempo assai Senza te sopportai ; Quasi intender non posso Come d'altri desiri, Fuor ch'a te somiglianti, altri sospiri. Parfois je ne puis croire Que cette vie misérable et ce monde sot, Sans toi, si longtemps, Je les aie supportés ; Et je comprends à peine Que vers d'autres désirs Sinon pareil à toi, d'autres soupirent. (Il pensiero dominante, la pensée dominante)

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires, along with desire's rewards.

Art is a kind of illness.

Chi il bel sogno di Doretta potè indovinar? Il suo mister come mai come mai fini Ahimè! un giorno uno studente in bocca la baciò e fu quel bacio rivelazione: fu la passione! Folle amore! Folle ebbrezza! Chi la sottil carezza d'un bacio così ardente mai ridir potrà? Ah! mio sogno! Ah! mia vita! Che importa la ricchezza se alfine è rifiorita la felicità! O sogno d'or poter amar così!

Jamás existió en el mundo nación de ateos, pues empezaron todas con alguna religión, y las religiones, sin salvedad, echaron su raigambre en aquel deseo, naturalmente común a los hombres, de vivir eternamente: y este universal deseo de la naturaleza humana nace de un común sentido, celado en la hondura de la mente humana, según el cual los ánimos de los hombres son inmortales.

Humans, in short, desire something both unknown to them and inaccessible to the strategies of acquisition that desire sets in motion. We are creatures in whom has been implanted and to whom has been entrusted a world-consuming desire, and if misdirected, it will sooner or later lay waste the world.

She was about eighteen, wearing a two-piece red bathing suit. She had blonde hair and she was really built, so when she ran you wanted to watch.

I knew I'd never get enough of her. She was straight out of hell.

The one real woman you want just doesn't exist. She's a dream you have to live with. Reaching, reaching, reaching - but never touching.

Watch for when he goes," she whispered. "Then come over to my bedroom. I'll be waiting, darling. Run!

A lonely man thinks of nothing but friendship, just as a repressed man thinks of nothing but flesh.

The implication of her turn of phrase, as Matthew knew, wasn't to be taken seriously. But, like all sufferers from unrequited love, he had ceased to be particular. The words had been said. For that he was grateful. For his nocturnal reveries, for the postmortem of each day that he conducted night after night, it was all that mattered.

Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

I was also feeding off a more general depression that sometimes settled over Kampala evenings. You had a sense of people not having gotten what they wanted during the day. The street vendors, for instance