Quotes About Desire

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

Madame de Nucingen was already there, dressed with the deliberate aim of appealing to all eyes, knowing that thereby she would seem even more attractive to Eugène.

Here is a perfect poem; to awaken a longing, to nourish it, to develop it, to increase it, to stimulate it – and to gratify it.

Mais que peuvent les malheureux? Ils aiment, voilà tout.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls

If I'd had a man of my own, I'd have followed him . . . down to hell.

La avaricia, como el amor, posee el don de la visión de los acontecimientos futuros, que presiente y adivina.

La verdadera pasión se expresa con gritos, con suspiros fastidiosos para el hombre frío.

Un homme sans passion e sans argent reste maitre de sa personne; mais un maleureux qui aime ne s'appartient plus et ne peut pas se tuer. L'amour nous donne une sorte de religion pour nous-meme, nous respectons en nous une autre vie, il devient alors le plus horibble des malheures avec une espérance, une espérance qui vous fait accepter des tortures

Dü?üncelerimi kendi üzerime çevirerek dü?ündüm: Kendisinin de özgür kalmas?n? dileyecek kadar sevmiyordu beni. Sevgi suç i?lemekten kaç?n?rsa s?n?r? var gibi görünür bize; oysa sevgi sonsuz olmal?d?r. Kalbim korkunç burkuldu. "Sevmiyor beni!" diye dü?ündüm.

O maior amor é o não correspondido. Cresce para aumentar avidez da carne; tortura para valorizar o prazer.

I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

Bir ak?am onu bir günbat?m? önünde dindarca dü?ünür buldum, güne? vadiyi bir yatak gibi göstererek doruklar? öyle bir ?ehvetle k?zart?yordu ki, do?an?n yarat?klar?n? a?ka ça??rmas?na arac?l?k eden ?u duras?z ilahiler ilahisini duymamak olanaks?zd?.

chooses with the men who seem to her agreeable, without being entered on the tablets of gossip. Certain coquettish women are capable of following a plan of this kind for seven years in order to gratify their fancies

perhaps love is only gratitude for pleasure.

Et voilà que , comme dans l' Ancien Testament , le pauvre possède un seul agneau qui fait son bonheur , et le riche qui a des troupeaux envie la brebis du pauvre et la lui dérobe ! ... sans le prévenir , sans la lui demander .

La ilusión es una memoria convertida en deseo.

Their well-prepared passion had finally reached maturity through that which tends to deaden passions: gratification.

Enfin, hormis le nombre des personnages, en remplaçant le loto par le whist, et en supprimant les figures de monsieur et de madame Grandet, la sc?ne, par laquelle commence cette histoire, était ? peu pr?s la m?me que par le passé. La meute poursuivait toujours Eugénie et ses millions; mais la meute plus nombreuse aboyait mieux, et cernait sa proie avec ensemble.

He maintained to Beatrix that love existed only by desire; that most women deceived themselves in loving; that they loved for reasons unknown to men and to themselves; that they wanted to deceive themselves, and that the best among them were artful.

Vouloir nous brûle et pouvoir nous détruit; mais savoir laisse notre faible organisation dans un perpétuel état de calme.

We want our Utopia now.

James 1:14, 15: "But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

I desire only the long ecstasy of wine, And desire not to awaken.