Quotes About Desire

Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.

It is not too fantastic to say that he desired them with some of the absolute passion that characterised the exposed and flaming heart of Jesus which hung on Emilie's wall. Since this narrative has tried to avoid the canonisation of the Herr Direktor, the idea of the sensual Oskar as the desirer of souls has to be proved.

You know you're only old if you want to be.

We all have romantic nature of one kind or another buried somewhere in our hearts.

BEL-IMPERIA: Oh let me go; for in my troubled eyes Now may'st thou read that life in passion dies. HORATIO: Oh stay a while, and I will die with thee; So shalt thou yield, and yet have conquered me.

I wanted to do things to Richard that would make the sun grow cold with horror.

It all seemed so enticing, but like every other attraction along the world's midway the greatest part of its appeal lay in those moments of anticipation. And after it was all over, the particular attraction which had once promised so much would send you on your way unrewarded, purged of your curiosity and the poorer for being so.

I felt the kind of acute anticipation that a child might experience at a carnival, where each lurid attraction incites fantastic speculations, while unexpected desires arise for something which has no specific qualities in the imagination yet seems to be only a few steps away.

And we will persist in chasing the impossible until we are no more.

was driven by the will to negate what one fears. No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.

What begins as a solitary truth soon proliferates like malignant cells in the body of a dream, a body whose true outline remains unknown. Perhaps, then, we should be grateful to the whims of chemistry, the caprices of circumstance, and the enigmas of personal taste for giving us such an array of strictly local realities and desires.

If there were dreams to sell,What would you buy?Some cost a passing-bell;Some a light sigh.

If there were dreams to sell,... Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rang the bell, What would you buy?

If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?

Jesus loved crème brûlée, but even with crème brûlée enough isn't just enough, it can get to be too much.

Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.

Let me feel how thy pulses beat.

The slowest kiss makes too much haste.

Her fingers touched me! She smells all amber.

Oh,Wert not gold and women, there would be no damnation