Quotes About Desire

Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something--something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.

Fear of death and the desire to live on, somehow, if only through our children. Or our grandchildren. Quixotic quest for immortality. It's sad and heroic and doomed - all at the same time.

Dreams aren't practical, but we can't live without them.

The young man gave Cloyd a poke. "You must crave the taste of trout, the way you hung onto 'em.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then I want to go where they do.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

The Price of Salt, by Patricia Highsmith

life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death." I

Surely it doesn't have to be this way? Stretching up the hill ahead of me, I begin to see all of my future relationships, bearing me on and up like some escalator of the fleshly. Each step is a man, a man who will penetrate me with his penis and his language, a man who will make a little private place with me, secure from the world, for a month, or a week, or a couple of years. How much more lonely and driven is the serial monogamist than the serial killer?

Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.

As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.

Romantic love is painful.

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

There is too such a thing as sex on legs. What it looks like might depend on your definition, but hoo boy, does it exist. Everyone's got a type that makes them stop in a crowd, turn around for a better look, and stare until they realize they're embarrassing themselves. Either that, or the wet dream walking turns around to give you the eye or flip you the finger.

Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing desire.

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.

In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

Why should we make love?" If the husband is honest, he will answer with something to the effect that making love relieves his sexual craving. But the answer of most wives is very different. She will say that sex helps her feel closer to her husband. For her, it is all about intimacy and emotional bonding.