Quotes About Desire

That good luck might be no such thing. There were few nights lying in the dark that he did not envy the dead.

I knew that courage came with less struggle for some than for others but I believed that anyone who desired it could have it.

People think they know what they want but they generally dont. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways. People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things.

Will children yet to come harbor a longing for a thing they cannot even name? The legacy of the word is a fragile thing for all its power, but I know where you stand, Squire. I know that there are words spoken by men ages dead that will never leave your heart.

What a man seeks is beauty, plain and simple. No other way to put it. The rustle of her clothes, her scent. The sweep of her hair across his naked stomach ( . . . ) That the man knows not how to even name that which enslaves him hardly lightens his burden.

Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves. No matter even if it kills him? I think so. Yes. No matter what.

He knew that those things we most desire to hold in our hearts are often taken from us while that which we would put away seems often by that very wish to become endowed with unsuspected powers of endurance. He knew how frail is the memory of loved ones. How we close our eyes and speak to them. How we long to hear their voices once again, and how those voices and those memories grow faint and faint until what was flesh and blood is no more than echo and shadow. In the end perhaps not even that.

If someone said to you that you had thrown your life away over a woman what would you say? Well thrown.

Pray for lightning.

Most people'll run from their own mother to get to hug death by the neck. They cant wait to see him.

You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget

You may see the time you wish you had worse.

A friend once told me that those who choose a love that can never be fulfilled will be hounded by a rage that can never be extinguished.

I hadnt known until that night that at its worst lust could be something close to anguish.

He knew that those things we most desire to hold in our hearts are often taken from us while that which we would put away seems often by that very wish to become endowed with unsuspected powers of endurance.

What. When your dreams are of some world that never was or of some world that never will be and you are happy again then you will have given up.

You would give up your dreams in order to escape your nightmares and I would not. I think it's a bad bargain.

Ci sono quattro cose che possono distruggere il mondo, disse. Le donne, il whisky, i soldi e i negri.

And it may be a superstition with us that if we will just give up those things we are fond of then the world will not take from us what we truly love. Which of course is a folly. The world knows what you love.

I knew that courage came with less struggle for some than for others but I believed that anyone who desired it could have it. That the desire was the thing itself. The thing itself. I could think of nothing else of which that was true.

Vuestro máximo deseo es que os cuente algún misterio. El misterio es que no hay ningún misterio.

If I think about what I wanted as a kid and what I want now they aint the same thing. I guess what I wanted wasnt what I wanted.

Shoo, said the old man. I wouldn't turn Satan away for a drink.