Quotes About Desire

The mass media causes sexual misdirection: It prompts us to need something deeper than what we want. This is why Woody Allen has made nebbish guys cool; he makes people assume there is something profound about having a relationship based on witty conversation and intellectual discourse. There isn't. It's just another gimmick, and it's no different than wanting to be with someone because they're thin or rich or the former lead singer of Whiskeytown.

I want fake love. But that's all I want, and that's why I can't have it.

The desire to be cool is—ultimately—the desire to be rescued.

outlining how certain fans of 'NSYNC like to imagine Justin Timber lake getting fisted by Lance Bass. Glenn Dixon surmised that much of the Contemporary Christian genre is driven by artists who literally want to fuck Jesus Christ.

The nineties were not an age for the aspirant. The worst thing you could be was a sellout, and not because selling out involved money. Selling out meant you needed to be popular, and any explicit desire for approval was enough to prove you were terrible.

One of the minor tragedies of human memory is our inability to unwatch movies we'd love to see (again) for the first time.

Wishing for control is like wishing for the rapture.

songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that feeling for real.

Football allows the intellectual part of my brain to evolve, but it allows the emotional part to remain unchanged. It has a liberal cerebellum and a reactionary heart. And this is all I want from everything, all the time, always.

In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't seem to care.

If you can't empathize with Charlie Brown, you likely lack an ability to empathize with any fictional character. Here is a child continually humiliated for desiring nothing more than normalcy - the opportunity to kick a football, the aptitude to fly a kite, the freedom to walk down the sidewalk without having a random acquaintance compare his skull to a block of lumber.

One of the things they desired most desperately was freedom of religion, based on the premise that Europe wasn't religious enough.

If you don't know what you want, the doorman said, you end up with a lot you don't.

Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.

I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.

Make me into anything, but just love me.

For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

Sex pretty much cures everything.

Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.

You always kill the one you love.

Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.