Quotes About Desire

Que tenho afinal? Que me falta? Sou tão feliz como qualquer cachorro, por que então este vazio e esta nostalgia? Que ânsia é esta, como se eu só amasse o que não conheço?" E o homem - o único a poder de livrá-lo da pergunta - este homem nunca lhe dirá quem ele é para não perdê-lo para sempre.

And now I was starting to let it touch me. In truth I had fought all my life against the profound desire to let myself be touched—and I had fought because I couldn't allow myself the death of what I called my goodness; the death of human goodness. But now I no longer wanted to fight it. There had to be a goodness so other that it wouldn't resemble goodness. I no longer wanted to fight.

El amor ya está, siempre está. Falta sólo el golpe de gracia —que se llama pasión.

I had fallen into the temptation of seeing, the temptation of knowing and feeling.

There's an old mistake about the word love, and, if many children have been born of this mistake, countless others have missed their only instant of being born merely due to a susceptibility that demands you be mine, mine! that you like me, and not my money.

Pela primeira vez na vida eu teria o que sempre quisera: ia ser outra que não eu mesma.

Y el amor, en vez de darse, se exige. Y quienes nos quieren desean que seamos eso que ellos necesitan.

Quiero ser anónima e íntima. Quiero hablar sin hablar, de ser posible.

Animal life boils down to this pursuit of pleasure after all. Human life is more complex: it boils down to the pursuit of pleasure, to fear of it, and above all to the dissatisfaction of the time in between.

Vengo de lejos, de una fuerte ancestralidad. Yo, que vengo del dolor de vivir. Y ya no lo quiero.

Özgürlük? Benim nihai s???na??m, kendimi özgürlüÄŸe zorlad?m ve bunu bir yetenek gibi deÄŸil de kahramanl?k gibi ta??yorum: kahramanca özgürüm. Ve ak??? istiyorum.

Capta essa outra coisa de que na verdade falo porque eu mesma não posso.

Sofremos por ter tão pouca fome, embora nossa pequena fome já dê para sentirmos uma profunda falta de prazer que teríamos se fôssemos de fome maior.

I am still corrupted by the condiment of the world.

Nesse dia, pois, ele conheceu uma das raras formas de estabilidade: A estabilidade do desejo irrealizável, a estabilidade do ideal inatingível

When the ancient goddesses—Ishtar, Astarte, Inanna, Isis, Diana, Athena…and, yes, Mary—were described as virgins, it didn't mean that they had never been touched, had never felt desire, or had never experienced sexual union. It meant that no man could own them or defile them. They were not pure or chaste, but green and powerful, these virgins—able to resurrect the land and remake the world with the coming of every spring.

Elle n'avait aucune envie de communiquer ses coordonnées (les siennes) à messire Arnaud Strauss, ce dernier n'ayant cessé depuis notre rupture (à elle et moi) de la poursuivre (elle) de ses assiduités (à lui) et de ses roses blanches (celles du fleuriste), allant jusqu'à faire des allusions scabreuses à ses formes voluptueuses (celles d'Agnès) devant moi (Frédéric Léger). L'affront, quoi.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded.

One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.

One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co-ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.

The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

At love's most intoxicating moment, I have enough freedom left to want to abandon it, for a moment, to other hands.

Death, before erasing me from the world, erases my desire to know the world. What's the good of seeing if you can't see everything, or see forever.