Quotes About Desire

When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered.

The more you want, the less you get, and the less you get, the more you have

It is much better to look for what I may never find than to find what I do not really want.

Što više želiš, to manje dobivaš, a što manje dobivaš, sve više imaš.

I soon discovered the truth of an old saying: "When God wants to punish you, he grants your wishes.

Mato de hambre al amor, para que devore lo que encuentre.

o love is to battle, if two kiss the world changes, desires take flesh thoughts take flesh, wings sprout on the backs of the slave, the world is real and tangible, wine is wine, bread regains its savor, water is water, to love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see Piedra de Sol (The Sun Stone), translated by Eliot Weinberger

El amor es una pasión que todos o casi todos veneran pero que pocos, muy pocos viven realmente.

Art is the opposite of dissipation, in the physical and spiritual sense of the word: it is concentration, desire that seeks incarnation.

El amor es elección; el erotismo, aceptación. Sin erotismo - sin forma visible que entra por los sentidos - no hay amor pero el amor traspasa al cuerpo deseado y busca al alma en el cuerpo y, en el alma, al cuerpo. A la persona entera.

Amar, es morir y revivir y remorir: es la vivacidad. Te quiero porque soy mortal y tú lo eres.

La ilusión de una morada en el tiempo es el deseo de hombres y mujeres. La esperanza y el instante de la felicidad, únicos asideros para vivir esta errancia sin fin. Y la cultura, para muchos, la salvación de toda tragedia: vivir en cualesquiera de los géneros teatrales, pero no vivir muerto.

Garabato Con un trozo de carbón Con mi gis roto y mi lápiz rojo dibujar tu nombre el nombre de tu boca el signo de tus piernas en la pared de nadie En la puerta prohibida grabar el nombre de tu cuerpo hasta que la hoja de mi navaja sangre y la piedra grite y el muro respire como un pecho...

Tal vez lo "eterno" sea esto: el mirarse, el ser mirado, el mirar. La chispa, la llamarada, la claridad, la luz de los ojos que preguntan, desean, contemplan, comprenden. Ver: iluminar, iluminarse.

Nuestro culto a la muerte es culto a la vida, del mismo modo que el amor, que es hambre de vida, es anhelo de muerte.

El fuego original y primordial, la sexualidad, levanta la llama roja del erotismo y ésta, a su vez, sostiene y alza otra llama, azul y trémula: la del amor.

For he is not poor who has little; only he that desires much Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and true security lies not in the things one has but in the things one can do without.

O]nly the sea is like a human being . . .always moving, always something deep in itself is stirring it. It never rests; it is always wanting, wanting, wanting. It hurries on; and then it creeps back slowly without having reached, moaning. It is always asking a question and it never gets the answer.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

why am I so alone, so hard, so cold? I am so weary of myself! It is eating my soul to its core,--self, self, self! I cannot bear this life! I cannot breathe, I cannot live! Will nothing free me from myself?' She pressed her cheek agains the wooden post. 'I want to love! I want something great and pure to lift me to itself! Dear old man, I cannot bear it any more! I am so cold, so hard, so hard; will no one help me!

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so carefully shut? Why not open it, only a little? Do they know there is many a bird will not break its wings against the bars, but would fly if the doors were open?

Existe um charme na feiura, uma sedução pelo não-pensar, uma vontade de ser fraco e idiota.

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

Delight thyself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.