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Quotes About Desire

One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid... One wants... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?
~ Tony Kushner
If you are always craving, always wanting, never satisfied, never happy with what you've got, you end up even more lost and lonely than you do...
~ Tony Parsons
What's your name?'Leon said, when waht he meant was - may I love you for ever? And she told him.
~ Tony Parsons
Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.
~ Tony Snow
Being in love with someone who doesn't even know you exist isn't the worst thing in the world. In fact, it's quite the oppostie. Almost like passing in a term paper that you know sucked, but having that period of time where you haven't gotten your grade back yet -- that kind of exhale where you haven't been rejected, although you pretty much know how it's going to turn out.
~ Tonya Hurley
Ah, Rosellini, el médico guapo y serio que se había enamorado perdidamente de ella y no se atrevía a decir con los labios lo que proclamaban a gritos sus ojos!
~ Unknown
Porque nadie añora lo que nunca tuvo, ni puede sentirse defraudado por carecer de lo que no conoce.
~ Unknown
Se la veía debatirse entre su deseo de dominar la congoja y la imposibilidad de evitarla. La dejó llorar. El llanto es una descarga de la emotividad. Cuando ésta llega a un punto grave de concentración es preciso abrir compuertas al alma. Y el llanto, a veces, es su mejor cauce.
~ Unknown
Locura? - Conflicto entre el yo real y el anhelado
~ Unknown
Det er som en abstinens ikke å få se den man er forelska i. Du kjenner det, fysisk, i hele deg, hvordan du mangler noe essensielt, hvordan det som får deg til å puste, det som får føttene dine til å bevege seg, ikke fins lengre. Alt annet mister betydning. Folk sier det er vanskelig å slutte å røyke. Forsøk å slutte å være forelska når du er det. Det er umulig.
~ Unknown
Så jækla langt vekke. En plog, noen biler, en temmelig lita dame fra Estland eller Litauen å ta bakfra. I have a dream... Alle mannfolk har et sted hvor de blir forsvarsløse. Ikke rart at jeg bare vil jækla langt vekk, og kjøre plogen, og ta ei dame bakfra og være i fred.
~ Unknown
What I want is not to want what isn't mine
~ Tori Amos
Gimme peace, love, and a hard cock!
~ Tori Amos
Even a glamorous bitch can be in need.
~ Tori Amos
So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.
~ Tori Amos
Sometimes I breathe you in and I know you know.
~ Tori Amos
Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
~ Tori Amos
So then I though I'd make some plans, but Fire thought she'd really rather be Water instead...
~ Tori Amos
Nadja, who is always hunting for a man, but always the wrong one, is trying to get together with Ebbe's brother Karsten, who she would fit like a ring in his nose.
~ Tove Ditlevsen
The most important thing, thought Edith, is what happens to a person when they see mountains. The most important thing is probably always precisely the thing you can't have. That's where all the happiness is
~ Tove Ditlevsen
The garnets,' Sniff moaned. 'I didn't get a single one.' Snufkin sat down beside him and said kindly: 'I know. But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.
~ Tove Jansson
Allting blir svårt när man vill äga saker, bära dem med sig och ha dem. Jag bara tittar på dem och när jag går min väg har jag dem inne i huvudet och kan ha roligare saker för mig än att bära kappsäckar.
~ Tove Jansson
du försöker leva riktigt men jag försöker leva rikt, det är som en äng där jag plockar här och där av hjärtans lust men du går rakt igenom och kommer ut på andra sidan med tomma händer därför att du inte har hittat just den blomman du ville ha.
~ Tove Jansson
You sentimentalise them because they're little," she said. "But the format doesn't matter. I have gradually learned that everyone, absolutely everyone of every size, is out to get something. People want things. It comes to them naturally. Of course they get more skilful with age, and they're no longer so disarmingly obvious, but the goal doesn't change. Your children simply haven't had time to learn how it's done. That's what we call innocence.
~ Tove Jansson