Quotes About Desire

How sad it is! murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June.... If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that--for that--I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!

I can resist anything except temptation - Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892)

Amar es superarse

I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather, I am quite content with philosophical contemplation.

El único camino para deshacerse de la tentación es ceder a ella

He wanted to escape from himself.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If

Still, I am conscious now that behind all this beauty, satisfying though it may be, there is some spirit hidden of which the painted forms and shapes are but modes of manifestation, and it is with this spirit that I desire to become in harmony. I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things.

I wish I could love," cried Dorian Gray with a deep note of pathos in his voice. "But I seem to have lost the passion and forgotten the desire. I am too much concentrated on myself. My own personality has become a burden to me.

People are fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

Wierno??! (...) Jest w niej pragnienie posiadania. Wiele rzeczy wyrzuciliby?my, gdyby nie obawa, ?e inni mog? j? podnie??.

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.

And yet it seems to me to be the one thing I have been looking for all my life.

Not worthy! Why, the whole world is nothing to me compared with her.

Some one has killed herself for love of you. I wish that I had ever had such an experience.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art.

The broads are fantastic…the bulging breasts of these savage wenches who move with graceful twists. Since I have come to L.A. I have not touched a woman of my own culture. I swallow my milk and feel my pants bursting with heat

I envy everyone secretly, I secretly love everything.

Everything is moved by love.

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The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have been and always will be. There is a vast difference, which most people will never comprehend, between viewing future history as it will be and viewing it as one might like it to be. Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals ...

Ten en cuenta que si regalas algo a tu amante antes de haberla poseído, es muy fácil que te quedes sin regalo y sin amante.

Odero, si potero; si non, inuitus amabo.