Quotes About Desire

Shut me up, Turn me on, Shut me up,

How many men with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most?

I'd like to be able to do that too, matey. Window-shop, go to the odd movie. What's window-shopping really like, eh? If it's too much of a feast, you'd better not tell me.

If you will it, it is not a fable.

The compulsion to defend ourselves is always stronger than the desire to conquer.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

Ich möchte schlafen, aber du mußt tanzen." [ Hyazinthen ]

In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation.

But the castration of perception by a court of control that denies it any anticipatory desire, forces it thereby into a pattern of helplessly reiterating what is already known.

a being as dependent on his cultural inheritance as man cannot escape convention so easily: and the desire to do so has itself become a cliché.

The lesson is that any powerful emotion or desire, however virtuous in many circumstances, can be turned to evil purposes if it escapes ethical control.

a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.' Oscar Wilde

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it—in other words, by becoming civilised—that men become fully human.

The drugs they take suppress their appetite: the nausea induced by heroin inhibits the desire to eat, while cocaine and its derivatives suppress it altogether.

Dreams may be the royal road to the unconscious, as Freud said they were, but if so it is a road that I don't want to go down.

An American Tragedy.

It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp.

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

The forces that run in American politics in our age are many and varied; they run in strange ways in our times of general education--they run in the meeting of white and black; in the nagging, daily concern for war and peace; in automation and unemployment. Yet one man must make them all clear enough for American people to vote and express their desire. He is the President.

The first and most essential quality of a presidential candidate, as Averell Harriman once pointed out, is that he should lust for the job - he should want it more than all things, with a passion surpassing all emotion and probably even all principle.

Brooding on God, I may become a man.Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire;What burns me now? Desire, desire, desire.

What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have........ ....... Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. ~From "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke

In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.