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Quotes About Desire

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now? Am I just under a spell that says nothing is ever good enough?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Throughout history the most powerful rulers have been sex maniacs. And he asks, does their sex appetite come from having power, or does their will for power come from their sex appetite?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Your being born make your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan just because you want something better.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Everyone wants to feel special - attain a special status among their pears- but not too special. Most kids want to be special the same way their friends are
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The way to get a babe to act in a blue movie is you offer her a million dollars. The way to get a dude is you just have to ask him.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
And I say no. The problem is the light, the dim light down here. Cupped in the palm of my hand, the cyanide and the wood pill, I can't tell which is which. What's sex and what's death—I can't tell the difference. I ask which one to give her. And Mr. Bacardi leans in to look, both of us breathing hot, damp air into my open hand.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
After you've been to fight club, watching football on television is watching pornography when you could be having great sex.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Power, money, food, sex, love. Can we ever get enough, or will getting some make us crave even more?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
In the movie where somebody is invisible all the sudden—you know, a nuclear radiation fluke or a mad scientist recipe—and you think, what would I do if I was invisible...? Like go into the guy's locker room at Gold's Gym or, better yet, the Oakland Raiders' locker room. Stuff like that. Scope things out. Go to Tiffany's and shoplift diamond tiaras and stuff.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
So why do you want to die so bad?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison. My taste for power continues to grow, as does my ability to accrue it.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Generaciones y generaciones han desempeñado trabajos que odiaban para poder comprar cosas que en realidad no necesitan.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
May I never be complete May I never be content May I never be perfect
~ Chuck Palahniuk
To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
She's seen it, pictured it, dreamed of it. She's wanted it so bad.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
No matter luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you chooe, you'll never be totally happy.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The reason boys desire so desperately to kiss girls is because, with each kiss, the activity makes the boy's wanger grow larger. The more girls a boy can kiss, the larger a wanger he'll eventually possess, and the boys boasting the largest are awarded the best-paying, highest-status jobs. Really, it's all very simple.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
this isn't so much romance as it is opportunity [victor mancini]
~ Chuck Palahniuk
She set them up on a date with their subconscious because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Some want to die but are just looking for my permission. Some want to die and just need a little encouragement. A little push.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
If you don't know what you want, the doorman said, you end up with a lot you don't.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what you'd call choosy.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Give me a voice. Flash. Give me a face.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's about getting off.
~ Chuck Palahniuk