Quotes About Desire

As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what just living might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

It was possible, wasn't it, that he loved her, and that in this time of terrifying opportunity he was willing to weaken himself before her in order to win her love.

Ahora lo que ansiaba era la muerte, no porque no amara la vida, sino porque la muerte era inevitable, y lo que nadie puede impedir debe aceptarse. Ése

She did not understand all of human nature, but Ender had taught her this: to stop a human being from doing something, you must find a way to make the person stop wanting to do it.

You consider everything impossible unless you want it, and then it already belongs to you, in which case anyone who stands in your way is a thief.

Sólo se desea lo que no se tiene.

A pure soul must never grow attached to any one thing.

The refreshments leave something to be desired." "Like what?" asked Banshee. "Refreshments," said Ezekiel.

Better come with me before your eyes make promises your stomach can't keep.

She did not understand all of human nature, but Ender had taught her this: to stop a human being from doing something, you must find a way to make the person stop wanting to do it. 6 VARELSE

So? Sometime or other everybody wishes everybody would go away. Sometimes I'll wish you would go away. What I'm telling you now is that even at those times, even if I tell you to go away, you don't have to go away.

She could see his reasoning. Or rather, his unreasoning. He could win all he wanted, but he knew in his heart that there was always someone who could destroy him. … "You don't understand", he said. "Yes I do." "No you don't. I don't want to beat Peter." "Then what do you want?" "I want him to love me.

Para impedir que un ser humano haga algo, hay que encontrar un medio para conseguir que deje de querer hacerlo.

Wasn't that the definition of adulthood? That you wanted one thing, but did another because you knew what was right and good, and wanted to do the right and the good more than you wanted to do what you wanted.

If only such sad people could remember: Everyone is naked. Everyone wants to hide. But life is still sweet. Let it go on.

Is there something in women that makes us long to be humbled? Or is it something in human beings, that when we are overmastered, we rejoice in our subjection? That would explain a lot of history.

La naturaleza no puede hacer evolucionar a las especies que no tienen un deseo de supervivencia.

You get so you kind of like the feeling of being hungry.

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Yet if he lost that desire, who would he be ? What would be in his heart then, if she were gone from it ?

I'm a mammal," said Bean. "I try to live forever whether I actually want to or not.

That's why I don't want him to take our babies away from me. I must have them all, the way conquerors have had to have this city. I must have them. That is my empire.

You only covet what you do not have.' Who said that?" "You did," said Han Fei-tzu. "Some say, 'what you cannot have.' Others say, 'what you should not have.' I say, 'You can truly covet only what you will always hunger for.

Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed.>