Quotes About Desire

He sat there, sighing and moaning and ruminating thusly: "Oh, if only the Holy One, blessed be His name, would give me ten thousand dollars, I promise I would give a thousand to the poor. Halevay! … And if the Holy One doesn't trust me, He can deduct the thousand in advance and just give me the balance.

Just as the banqueteers are drunk from wine, the citizens are drunk from fears, hopes, desires, and aversions and are therefore in need of being ruled by a man who is sober.

Life is the joyless quest for joy.

Muito comummente, um homem adormecido luta com um mal doloroso do qual se quer livrar e constata, despertando, a existência desse mal no fundo de si mesmo.

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

He went down trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, but he saw her, as one sees the sun, without looking.

What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it.

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires But nevertheless, when I'm not successful, It can also be quite pleasurable.

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

I don't give a damn unless I'm fond of a person;but I'd sacrifice my life for those I am fond of; the rest I'd throttle if they stood in my way...And you may not believe me but if I still set a value on life it is only because I still hope one day to meet such a heavenly creature who will regenarate me, purify me and elevate me. But you don't understand that.

It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

How strange it is that when I was a child I tried to be like a grownup, yet as soon as I ceased to be a child I often longed to be like one.

I didn't know you were going. What are you coming for?" she said, letting fall the hand with which she had grasped the doorpost. And irrepressible delight and eagerness shone in her face. "What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said, "I can't help it.

No one is satisfied with his fortune,and everyone is satisfied with his wit.

Men have always shown greed," Anne continued. "They spread your legs and plant their seed, then pick their nose on the pillow and fart. Your common fool will prove no different.

You fucked-up hunk.

Love must wait; it must break one's bones.

The freedom she meant was self-conquest. It was not a natural state. It was meant only for those who would risk everything for it, who were aware that without it life is only appetites until the teeth are gone.