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Quotes About Desire

It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you'd never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you'd never need more. That if enough people loved you, you'd stop needing love.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The magic of sex is it's acquisition without the burden of possession. No matter how many women you take home, there's never a storage problem.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut hosing orgasm.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The only thing that separates us from the animals...is we have pornography.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Condoms ribbed for extrasensitivity. The last thing I need is extrasensitivity. Here are condoms lined with a topical anesthetic for prolonged action. What a paradox. You don't feel a thing, but you can fuck for hours. This seems to really miss the point. I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Ištisos kartos užsiima darbais, kuri? neken?ia, tik tod?l, kad nusipirkt?, ko jiems iš tikr?j? nereikia.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Her voice makes me think of her mouth makes me think of her breath makes me think of her breasts.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
A woman eats to feed her pussy. Meaning: Anything we do to excess is in compensation for not getting a minimum amount of sexual gratification.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted to breathe smoke.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Years of living in the hope that what you'll get will be better than what you have. Years of looking and feeling worse in the hope that you might look better.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. If you don't know what you want, the doorman said, you end up with a lot you don't. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I'm in love. So kill me.
~ Chuck Palahniuk