Quotes About Desire

Todo era mucho más sencillo cuando no quería nada. Cuando quieres algo y no lo consigues...puedes convertirte en alguien muy cruel

Amar es tan doloroso, ¿cómo se lo podríamos desear a alguien? Y el amor es tan esencial, ¿cómo podríamos interponernos en su camino?

Eso de los pecados de la carne no es más que un mecanismo de control; que si demonizas el placer de las personas eres capaz de controlar su vida

She is sitting right next to me. I want to run my finger along her arm. I want to kiss her neck. I want to whisper the truth in her ear. But instead I watch as she conjugates verbs. I listen as the air is filled with a foreign language, spoken in haphazard bursts. I try to sketch her in my notebook, but I am not an artist, and all that comes out are the wrong shapes, the wrong lines. I cannot hold onto anything that's her.

This is what love does. It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot.

Feelings don't follow rules. Guilt does. Fear does. But attraction? No way.

Noah se ha convertido en mi «cuánto falta para».

I am not sure I have the strength to resist this.

Quiero estar cerca de él y no por una vaga noción de lo que sería estar a su lado, sino porque ya lo he estado y no quiero que termine.

Lo único que sé es que quiero algo auténtico. Sé que soy joven y que «auténtico» no significa «para siempre», [...] pero quiero sentir que la vida importa.

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible.

Yo lo único que quiero es estar contigo.

I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what you've done to me.

É isso que o amor faz: que você queira reescrever o mundo. Que você queira escolher os personagens, construir o cenário, dirigir o roteiro. A pessoa que você ama senta de frente para você, e você quer fazer tudo que estiver ao alcance para tornar isso possível, infinitamente possível. E quando são apenas vocês dois a sós numa sala, você pode fingir que é assim que as coisas são, que é assim que serão

I've always wanted the happy ending, but now I'll just settle for the ending.

Most of the time when we think we're looking for death, we're really looking for love -Rhiannon

The desire to take a moment and make it last forever. The desire to stay like this for much longer than it will really last.

Sonhar e amar e transar. Nenhuma dessas coisas é uma identidade. Talvez quando as outras pessoas olham para nós, mas não para nós mesmos.

The boy I loved didn't know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus, so he didn't know if any of us existed

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don't understand why it's so hard, when it's so obvious.

it's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. and maybe I've gotten it backward, maybe it's just because I need a reason that I find myself falling in love

You know what it's like to look at someone and realize they're hungry for you?

The song is Always Wanting You, a favorite of Dad's, where cynical, heartsick Merle croon about always wanting but never having his love, and about how hard it will be to face tomorrow cuz he knows he'll just be wanting her again. Doomed.

What was left was sex in the head, as D.H.Lawrence called it. ... Where else would the human subject have sex but in the head? Sexual desire was a play of signifiers, an infinite determent and displacement of anticipated pleasure which the brute coupling of the signifieds temporarily interrupted.