Quotes About Desire

I ask only one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now; but if even that is impossible, command me to disappear and I will do it. -Vronsky

Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.

When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!

why am i dying to live, if im just living to die?

Love defies all calculation. We are not judicious in love; we do not select those whom we ought to love, but those whom we cannot help loving.

I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.

Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people -- which is what I think it does mean -- then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.

The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.

Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of all the rest. By the very act of listening to one rather than to others we have already prejudged the case.

I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

Despite the elimination of subjectivity from the mechanical world picture, the desire for perfection, the need to defy and circumvent fate, the impulse to transcendence, can be observed in technology, too, along with other manifestations common to religion, like the readiness to accept sacrifice and premature death.

When I was nine, my life was devoted to seeing a tit. I was Captain Ahab, and it was my big white whale. I'd go down to Sears on a Sunday in hopes they'd remove a clothing from a mannequin. Sad but true, sad but fuckin' true.

A thousand times, when the train slowed or stopped, I thought of jumping off. I wanted to die in a ditch. I wanted to disappear. I wanted a different history and geography. In rhythm with the wheels I said I want I want I want I want I stayed on the train.

We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.

The joy of being a consumer is that it doesn't require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.

The urge to reincarnate while still alive is near universal.

Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

The urge that most people feel to have kids is the exact same as the urge that I have to not have kids. I do not want to raise a child.

I'd quite like to direct. I don't think it will happen, but my urge is that way inclined.

Ever since my childhood, I had an urge to always stay in the limelight.

We all feel the urge to conform; it is the most normal of human desires.