Quotes About Desire

Two well-known French writers and thinkers, Françoise Giroud and Bernard-Henri Lévy, developed an entire book from a series of conversations concerning love, desire, seduction, jealousy, infidelity, marriage, and falling out of love. They discuss these themes using literary and historical references as well as personal observations and experiences. This type of discourse can trace its lineage back to the Courts of Love of the Middle Ages.

D.H. Lawrence had the impression – that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a kind of rather repugnant artificial triangle, thereby stifling the whole of sexuality as a production of desire so as to recast it along entirely different lines, making of it a 'dirty little secret', a dirty little family secret, a private theater rather than the fantastic factory of nature and production

La sociedad de consumo nos condena a vivir en un estado de insuficiencia perpetua, a desear siempre más de lo que podemos comprar. Se nos aparta implacablemente del estado de plenitud, se nos tiene siempre insatisfechos, amargados por todo lo que no podemos permitirnos. Se ha dicho que el sistema del consumo comercial es un poco como el tonel de las Danaides que además sabe aprovechar el descontento y la frustración de todos.

Consumimos em espetáculo aquilo que a vida real nos recusa: sexo porque estamos frustrados, aventura porque nada de palpitante agita nossas existências no dia a dia; ...

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.

The longing she saw that even now danced between them with nowhere to go.

This time I want to do it differently. You may be weaker than the whole world but you are always stronger than yourself. Let me send my power against my power. So what if I die. Let me discover what it is that I want and fear from love. Power and love, might and grace. That I may desire again. I would be the lover, am barely the Beloved.

Well, if you can't have what you want, you could try to want what you have.

Sometimes love just isn't enough to make something possible,

When you ask a female colleague whether you expect too much out of marriage if you still want to actually desire your husband, she laughs almost manically and says, "Hell, yes.

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free. —Margaret Atwood

If you want it badly enough, it's yours.

To believe that we can have what we want is an act of trust – not only of others but also, ourselves.

When you find yourself wanting a better moment -wanting something else in the future- it can be helpful to ask: What will that give me? We think we will finally be happy when that moment arrives. What we discover when we do get what we want is that even that wonderful moment disappears. Life keeps moving on, bringing us a mixture of what we like and don't like. Why not like- love - it all because it won't be here for long, it will never be this way again, and it's all you've got.

Chasing after what we want only results in more wanting, not in satiation.

Language such as "good" and "bad" and "I like" and "I don't like" divides the world into what you want and don't want. Then when life shows up in a way you don't like, you suffer. By wanting life to look a certain way, you cause your own suffering. The hero has seen how such dualities and desires create suffering and how suffering wouldn't exist without them.

The you is programmed for unhappiness because it is programmed to seek that which can never bring true happiness. It goes after more and better and different from whatever is actually present, and that creates ceaseless searching and dissatisfaction with whatever is found. This is a very unhappy predicament, and yet this is the human condition.

But don't make the mistake that so many parents make and allow your desire for changed behavior to replace your desire for a changed heart. If you can reach the heart, the behavior will take care of itself. Keep in mind that it is possible to cause your child to change his irritating behavior to that which is acceptable without an actual heart change taking place.

What a charming little miss! The more I love her, the more she disdains me. - Bartolo

What on earth is all this love which makes everyone go mad? - Berta

I feel my heart tremble. - Rosina

En mis prisas por salir hacia la vida, me había aferrado de la mano de un hombre cuyo único deseo era que lo acompañara a la cueva donde se escondía de ella.

Por lo menos una vez en la vida cada mujer merecía enloquecer de esa manera

Vestime de amor que estoy desnuda.