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Quotes About Desire

all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity.
~ Leo Tolstoy
My second sentiment was a craving for love. I wanted every one to know me and to love me. I wanted to be able to utter my name — Nicola Irtenieff — and at once to see every one thunderstruck at it, and come crowding round me and thanking me for something or another, I hardly knew what.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find those causes is implanted in man's soul. And without considering the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, he snatches at the first approximation to a cause that seems to him intelligible, and says:
~ Leo Tolstoy
be tempted by so easy a way of ending my life. I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it. And all this befell
~ Leo Tolstoy
He walked down, trying to avoid looking at her for too long, as if she were the sun, but like the sun, he could still see her even when he was not looking at her.
~ Leo Tolstoy
With one burning hand she held his and with the other she kept pushing him away.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Animalele par s? ?tie c? progenitura le perpetueaz? specia ?i respect? o anumit? lege în acest sens.Numai omul nu ?tie asta ?i nici nu vrea.Singura lui grij? este s? guste din cât mai multe pl?ceri.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He had said the very thing that her soul desired but that her reason feared.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Formerly each separate desire caused by suffering or privation, such as hunger, fatigue, thirst, had been satisfied by a bodily function that gave pleasure; but now privation and suffering received no satisfaction, and the attempt at satisfaction caused new suffering.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness to a test on the part of the masses, thus preserving their right to an inactive hauteur which makes no difference to anybody. A revolutionary party can turn its back to a parliament only if it has set itself the immediate task of overthrowing the existing regime.
~ Leon Trotsky
Vrea s? muÈ™te din fructul amar, dar f?r? s?-i guste am?reala. S? lucrezi în lume, dar s? nu simÈ›i nici un fel de dragoste pentru lume.
~ Leon Wieseltier
Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.
~ Leonard Cohen
And you want to travel with herAnd you want to travel blindAnd you know that she will trust youFor you've touched her perfect body with your mind.
~ Leonard Cohen
And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
~ Leonard Cohen
Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend the night beside her And you know that she's half crazy But that's why you want to be there
~ Leonard Cohen
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
~ Leonard Cohen
He knew that hair couldn't feel; he kissed her hair.
~ Leonard Cohen
I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you was naked Ah, but some of you was light.
~ Leonard Cohen
I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside our door.
~ Leonard Cohen
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love
~ Leonard Cohen
you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent
~ Leonard Cohen
I know she is coming I know she will look And that is the longing And this is the book.
~ Leonard Cohen
I followed the course From chaos to art Desire the horse Depression the cart
~ Leonard Cohen
If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.
~ Leonard Cohen