Quotes About Desire

Jos pääni hohtaisi ja ihmiset alkaisivat tuijottaa rautiovaunuissa; ja voisin venyttää vartaloni läpi kirkkaan veden sekä viipyä kalojen ja rantakäärmeiden rinnalla; jos voisin turmella sulkani lennolla auringon edessä; luuletko että pysyisin tässä huoneessa, lausumassa sinulle runoja, kehitellen hävyttömiä fantasioita huultesi vähäisimmistäkin liikkeistä?

But I know she's coming and I know she will look That's the longing and this is the book

No soy un santo ni un asesino; no amo ni mato. Hago el amor y arranco las alas de las moscas.

String Reprise / Treaty I wish there was a treaty we could sign It's over now, the water and the wine We were broken then but now we're borderline And I wish there was a treaty, I wish there was a treaty between your love and mine

And all I've said was just instead Of coming back to you.

Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action.

Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.

People have a basic desire to feel good about themselves, and we therefore have a tendency to be unconsciously biased in favor of traits similiar to our won, even such seemingly meaningless traits as our names. Scientists have even identified a discrete area of the brain, called the dorsal striatum, as the structure that mediates much of this bias.

Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?

Too often, parents today allow their desire to please their child to govern their parenting. If your relationship with your child is governed by your own desire to be loved by him or her, the odds are good that you will not achieve even that objective.

I have no idea where I am going. . . . But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.

You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do

Dear Commendatory Roomers, you have no idea how many people-serious, decently behaved, cultivated people- go looking for the company of whores

Così, dall'ansia di perdere certe gioie appena gustate, dall'innata avarizia, dall'oscuro disprezzo per i propri simili, prontamente cogliendo l'occasione che la sorte gli offriva, con grave ma lucido azzardo, Giuseppe Vella si fece protagonista della grande impostura.

Touch me, he thought, and all he could think was: love me, and all he could think was: why I never prepare for this moment better? Look how I had all these years of life to ready myself for your arrival, and what I did with them? Wasted them on other women, and other ideas, and now you here, I not ready. He wanted to sit in front of her and have her tell him everything she'd ever experienced in all of her life.

Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.

Angels must be devoured

You can't love anyone until you have drawn blood and dipped in your fingers and enjoyed it.

The more devoted a woman shows herself, the sooner the man sobers down and becomes domineering. The more cruelly she treats him and the more faithless she is, the worse she uses him, the more wantonly she plays with him, the less pity she shows him, by so much the more will she increase his desire, be loved, worshipped by him.

She had wrapped her marble-like body in a huge fur, and rolled herself up trembling like a cat.

You are cold, while you yourself fan flames. By all means wrap yourself in your despotic furs, there is no one to whom they are more appropriate, cruel goddess of love and of beauty

Las grandes pasiones parten de la antítesis.