Quotes About Desire

There are two things that make the conscious world move, decision and desire.

You can't own something unless you can swallow it

Immediately he surprised her, for she like the way he kissed, like a man who wanted to swallow life.

It led to the unrelenting hunger of hearts, to lustful, searching eyes, and creeping, confident hands, to souls who believed that what they could touch they could own.

Love is Venemous

It's the hunger; the hunger for an alternative and the refusal to accept a life of unhappiness...

Darren's lack of milk shake right now feels like some sort of war crime. Like someone should contact Amnesty International.

Todavía no sabía lo que era el amor ni si estaba enamorado de ella, pero cada vez que pensaba en ella sentía algo que no sentía salvo cuando lo sentía... No sabía por qué, ni qué significaba todo eso, ni qué debía hacer al respecto. Pero tratar de no sentirlo, tratar de que desapareciera, ahora le parecía algo profundamente equivocado.

This object is what Lacan calls the objet petit a. The objet a constitutes the subject as desiring; it provides the lure that acts as an engine for the desire of the subject and also directs that desire in its circuit. In fact, Lacan notes repeatedly that "the petit a is the cause of the subject." It causes the subject to emerge as a desiring subject, as the subject of desire. Desire is, in this sense, part of what one gets in exchange for the sacrifice of one's enjoyment.

In fact, desire is sustained dissatisfaction. This state of sustained dissatisfaction is the normal state for subjects within a society of prohibition. Prohibition produces dissatisfied, desiring subjects, subjects who remain securely within the confines of the social order.

Because of our ability to imagine an enjoyment that the symbolic order prohibits, the imaginary offers us a separate register of experience, distinct from the symbolic order.

Love seems like a capitalist plot.

Rather than the death that occurs at the end of life, the death drive comes out of a death that occurs within life.

You're gonna turn me into one of those fat, useless, contented cats," Binx said.

What is more punished among the angry than anger? among the unsatisfied than desire? among the hate-filled than hate? among the frightened than fear?

One of the characteristics of the mind is that it is always expecting something, chasing after something it wants or retreating from or resisting something is doesn't want.

Ik verlangde naar beweging en niet naar een zo rustig voorbijgaand leven. Ik verlangde naar opwinding, naar gevaren, naar een gelegenheid mij op te offeren voor mijn gevoel.

Sou como uma pessoa faminta a quem deram de comer" "I am like a starveling person who was given some food" Anna Karénina

Isso não é amor. Eu já estive apaixonado, mas isso não é a mesma coisa. Não se trata de um sentimento meu, mas de uma força exterior que se apoderou de mim. Veja, eu fugi porque decidi que tal coisa não poderia acontecer, entende, como uma felicidade que não pode existir na terra; mas lutei contra mim mesmo e vejo que sem isso não existe vida.

Mais ma femme, est-ce que je l'aime? Ce n'est pas que je l'aime, c'est autre chose que je ne sais comment t'expliquer [...] Est-ce que j'aime mon doigt? Je ne l'aime pas, mais essaie un peu de me le couper...

A desire of desires: the melancholy.

The only imperfection in life then was that we didn't really have much money.

She always fought, as Sonia Ardakani noticed, 'tooth and nail for the things she wanted in life'.

I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.