Quotes About Desire

What might have been" is a pretty good definition of Hell.

Lewis Petrinovich, The Cannibal Within (New York: Aldine de Gruyter

Two major motives fuel the spree killer's final, hate-filled act: revenge against the world and a desire to show that—all evidence to the contrary—he is a person to be reckoned with. Tormented by his failure to achieve those things that seem to come so easily to others—satisfying work, loving relationships—he will prove that he is special in at least one regard: in his power to wreak havoc.

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

Not to be with the one you love, Laura, the one person you should be spending your life with--it's like a kind of living death. To wake up every morning and know you are still here. To have that brief, sweet moment of blankness, before your mind reminds you who you are, and why you are unhappy. It was like hell. A living hell of the heart's own making.

Are you sure it wouldn't work?" said Jo urgently, in a quiet voice. "Are you sure you don't want to see him again? Laura wanted to laugh. Those were two totally separate things, weren't they?

What she didn't say was: "Can I punch both your sisters?" "How do you cope with this, all the time?" "Why can't it be the two of us, like it was before?" And, "Do you realize I've fallen for you?

She'd learned now that the only way to write a list was to finish with something you actually wanted to do.

I admire and look up to heroes, but indolent men make the best lovers.

Buying things is only sometimes about owning the things. Buying often is simply about what 50 Cent observed: being ABLE to buy. Having less means hearing "No, you cannot have that," and we loathe being told what we can and cannot do.

Each person is living for himself his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

Those who wish that success would fall into their laps will wish forever. But those who look at the world as it is, who recognize that the consumer is king, who take the trouble to find out what the consumer wants ~ these men make fortunes. People will always reward them ~ because people will not want to be without their services.

Think about it. Every action committed by any human being has one common objective – to bring about happiness for the individual himself. That is the one thing we can say for certain about human action – it is aimed at happiness. Whether or not it succeeds is something else again

Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them to come alive... to survive.

If you love something/Set it free/If it loves you/It will come back to you/ If it doesn't--hunt it down and kill it.

Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.

He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.

Prayer, in this more inclusive sense, is the settled craving of a man's heart, good or bad, his inward love and determining desire.

the prayer of dominant desire always tends to attain its object.

There are significant relationships, of course, between wanting things and caring about them..The notion of caring is in large part constructed out of the notion of desire. Caring about something may be, in the end, nothing more than a certain complex mode of wanting it. However, simply attributing desire to a person does not in itself convey that the person cares about the object he desires.

The joy of expiration is as natural as the joy of loving, the joy of killing, the joy of being.

Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.

Everybody wants something at the expense of everybody else and nobody thinks much of the other fellow.

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.