Quotes About Desire

The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it.

We spend our youth hunting for the reality we think lies on the other side of our illusions. What we find at the other end of our search is what lies on the other side of the movie screen: a dark and desolate space that only reveals the unreality of what we pursued. So we spend our adulthood trying to recapture the illusions. Few of us do.

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

Evelyn said, "What's it called when a person needs a … person … when you want to be touched and the … two are like one thing and there isn't anything else at all anywhere?" Alicia, who had read books, thought about it. "Love," she said at length. She swallowed. "It's a madness. It's bad.

You write out of need. You write out of hunger. It isn't your brilliance; it's the flaw in your makeup that drives you.

But even though I like having sex with you, I think you're kind of a huge asshole, and I don't want to have to talk to you again.

It was strange. ... If she'd never gone to the Amazon, never met Ash, she would most likely have been perfectly content with Todd. She wouldn't have understood those fleeting flashes of emptiness that come upon a per¬son from time to time. Now she knew what they were: the yearning for what could have been, for the road never taken.

Pop-Tarts would be nice. Pop-Tarts and Tang.

Another truth in life. People change when you have something they want.

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.

Mick As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll.

My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused/confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.

When you were here before Couldn't look you in the eye You're just like an angel Your skin makes me cry

And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.

5. Be ofttimes mindful of the saying,(3) The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing. Strive, therefore, to turn away thy heart from the love of the things that are seen, and to set it upon the things that are not seen. For they who follow after their own fleshly lusts, defile the conscience, and destroy the grace of God.

There is naturally in every man a desire to know, but what profiteth knowledge without the fear of God?

Not every desire is from the Holy Spirit, even though it may seem right and good.

Rest from inordinate desire or knowledge, for therein is found much distraction and deceit.

Shun too great a desire for knowledge, for in it there is much fretting and delusion. Intellectuals like to appear learned and to be called wise. Yet there are many things the knowledge of which does little or no good to the soul, and he who concerns himself about other things than those which lead to salvation is very unwise.

If this most holy Sacrament were celebrated in only one place and consecrated by only one priest in the whole world, with what great desire, do you think, would men be attracted to that place, to that priest of God, in order to witness the celebration of the divine Mysteries! But now there are many priests and Mass is offered in many places, that God's grace and love for men may appear the more clearly as the Sacred Communion is spread more widely through the world.

Your sole desire should be the glory of God, not the praise of others.