Quotes About Desire

He knew America, and even though he hadn't been there in fifteen years, he knew what its soldiers liked because of what one of them had written on the door of a metal locker that was in the room he'd been given to live in. Sex, potato soup, and Johnny Cash, it said.

But if I decide to decide there's a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won't the reason for this decision be my desire to be less lonely, meaning to suffer less overall pain? Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision?

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

What TV is extremely good at—and realize that this is all it does—is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

perversely, it is often more fun to want something than to have it.

She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.

It's that he persists in the bizarre, adolescent belief that getting to have sex with whomever one wants whenever one wants to is a cure for human despair.

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.

Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful.

Kid, sobriety's like a hard-on; the minute you get it, you want to fuck with it.

Deluded or not, it's still a lucky way to live. Even though it's temporary. It may well be that the lower-ranked little kids at E.T.A. are proportionally happier than the higher-ranked kids, since we (who are mostly not small children) know it's more invigorating to want than to have, it seems. Though maybe this is just the inverse of the same delusion.

Te occidere possunt sed te edere possunt nefas est.

This by the way is known as Werther's Axiom, whereby quote The Intensity of a desire D is inversely proportional to the ease of D's gratification. Known also as Romance.

LaMont, the truth is that the world is incredibly, incredibly, unbelievably old. You suffer with the stunted desire caused by one of its oldest lies. Do not believe the photographs. Fame is not the exit from any cage.

Es muy raro sentir que añoras algo que ni siquiera estás seguro de conocer.

it is often more fun to want something than to have it.

What fire dies when you feed it?

When they were introduced, he made a witicism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces.

You're supposed to be strong enough to exert some control over how much you want to hide, and you're so desperate to feel some kind of control that you settle for the appearance of control.

Her expression is from Page 18 of the Victoria's Secret catalogue.

The 'base frees and condenses, compresses the whole experience to the implosion of one terrible shattering spike in the graph, an afflated orgasm of the heart that makes her feel, truly, attractive, sheltered by limits, deveiled and loved, observed and alone and sufficient and female, full, as if watched for an instant by God.

He had never been so anxious for the arrival of a woman he did not want to see.

It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames.