Quotes About Desire

Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook, The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

I really don't get this whole oranges thing. It's like, does he want to eat them or go out with them?

The more flesh, the more worms. The more possessions, the more worry.

Lo leerás. Después, charlaremos. Ahora solamente diré que, si tuviera que vivir mil vidas, querría vivirlas todas contigo.

I didn't want to die, ever. I wanted to watch a million suns set, love a million women, walk down a million city streets and lonely roads. A thousand lifetimes wouldn't be enough for that. Sometimes, convinced I had come down with some fatal illness, I was afraid I wouldn't even have one.

I cling to that story in The Symposium, of the two halves coming together in "an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy, and one will not be out of the other's sight," because that's all I want to know.

For so long, I've only had one-sided feelings for other people. I've completely forgotten how good it feels to be loved.

The thing we want eludes our grasp, Some other thing is given; sometimes Our wish is gained, and gifts unsought Are ours; these all are God?s own work.

I will abandon my agonized soul to vice if instantly you don't send a medimnos of barley. From the flour I'll make a brew to drink as medicine against my sorrows.

I wanted everything good in the world for him; every dream he had, all of his secret plans, to come true. I suddenly was glad that Mona was his.

there is a contradiction between what desire wants – complete conquest – and what it needs in order to continue to exist:

Desire is that animal that remains fit only through undernourishment.

I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.

I wanted this world to still. I wanted to fix it and be fixed within it. But everything was on the move, the clouds, the wind...

All I could do was escape from reality, but every time I tried to escape from the pain, that same pain told me that I had probably been falling in love with him.

He loved me and I would rather have him become one with me than disappear from my life. Then I'd never have to be away from him ever again. He said I was important to him. So why did he leave me? How could he leave me?

All I wanted was to be part of an underground world where the sun doesn't shine, there are no serenades, and the sound of children's laughter is never, ever heard.

The house of the childless is empty; and so is the heart of him that hath no wife.

Man vill bli älskad, i brist därpå beundrad, i brist därpå fruktad, i brist därpå avskydd och föraktad. Man vill ingiva människorna något slags känsla. Själen ryser för tomrummet och vill kontakt till vad pris som helst.

We want to be loved; failing that, admired; failing that, feared; failing that, hated and despised. At all costs we want to stir up some sort of feeling in others. Our soul abhors a vacuum. At all costs it longs for contact.

Det fattades bara, det fattades bara att jag skulle gå genom livet utan att nånsin ha varit din.

We want everything, we want to be everything. We want to experience all the joys of good fortune and the full depths of suffering. We want the excitement of action and the calm of observation. We want the silence of the desert as well as the noise of the forum. Simultaneously we want to be the hermit´s thought and the voice of the people; we want to be both melody and harmony. Simultaneously! How could this be possible?

In the days when I was ambitious I worked out a very pretty little plan for conquering the whole earth and rearranging things as they ought to be; and when, in the end, everything became so good it almost began to be boring, then I was going to stuff my pockets with as much money as I could lay hands on and creep away, vanish in some cosmopolis and sit at a corner cafe and drink absinthe and enjoy seeing how everything went to the devil as soon as I wasn't on the scene any more.