Quotes About Desire

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster awakens in Adam and Eve the possibility that things could be better. Instantly, they are cast out of the garden and condemned to a life of toil, drudgery, and pain. Wants supplanted needs, and things have been going downhill ever since.

Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude. Caesar, Gallic Wars Only a few prefer liberty—the majority seek nothing more than fair masters. Sallust, Histories

You cannot regulate desire.

We always want what we're not allowed.'20 Ovid, in offering this sage observation, was putting his finger on a mocking truth. Forbidden fruit tasted the sweetest. 'Prohibitions, trust me, only encourage bad behaviour.

Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.

Maar als het geschrevene soms al moeilijk te vergeten is, hoeveel moeilijker valt het dan niet datgene te vergeten waarvan men hoopte dat het ooit geschreven zou worden? Maar dat voor altijd ongeschreven is gebleven?

Hoe zou ik nog een stijve krijgen naast zo'n bodemloze kut waar meer vreemde leuters in verdwijnen dan drollen in een riool?

There are 70 million books in American libraries, but the one I want to read is always out.

Master-meaning! Concealed revealment! I spent my twenties wanting to be Lévi-Strauss – which is ironic, since he spent most of his life wanting to be somebody or something else: a philosopher, say, or novelist, or poet.

Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.

It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.

LOVE IS ONLY LUST DRESSED UP FOR CHURCH.

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

Only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.

Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams, and I'll show you a happy man." Keating: "But only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.

With tybo men there isn't much difference between fucking and killing.

Drop-dead freshly fucked gorgeous.

For the most part, I'd say if you crossed a cat with a smart dog, made him a matriarchal vegetarian, gave him sleek beauty, a mass of muscle, and the desire to run, then what you'd have is a horse.

You know, Rose said, You're not the first man in history who thinks his cock is the path to wisdom. You're not the first man to make his hard-on into the Holy Grail.

It would have been nice to have had unicorns.

Guilty pleasure" is a curious concept. There is a question of causality: Does the pleasure cause the guilt, or does it in fact stem from it? Would guilty pleasures be pleasurable without guilt? Or does the guilt come because we are not feeling any guilt for indulging in the pleasure?

We all want to be individuals on the road, but smooth-flowing traffic requires conformity. We want all the lights to be green, unless we are on the intersecting road, in which case we want those lights to be green. We want little traffic on our own street but a convenient ten-lane highway blazing just nearby. We all wish the other person would not drive, so that our trip would be faster. What's best for us on the road is often not best for everyone else, and vice versa.

Well, it's either kiss me or kill me, that's how I see it.