Quotes About Desire

Wanting creates the space in which our highest aspirations come into being.

I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do the job for me.

I wanted it, I wanted, I wanted, but the moment it was mine, it ceased to interest me.

They're hungry for something they know nothing about, but we, we know all too well that the price of fame is the loss of privacy.

The combination of ammonia and chloride can be lethal but I've discovered it can work miracles as long as you keep telling yourself, I want to love, I want to live...

that's what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top.

Today a child told Santa Ken that he wanted his dead father back and a complete set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Everyone wants those Turtles.

He sounded like me when I sensed there were drugs around: All I know is that if someone wants to get high, or wants to watch while I smoke his dope, I'll do it. I really will.

On the plane from Paris I heard a man say, "The first thing I'm going to do when I get home is order a Big Gulp. I'm going to supersize everything!" He said he'd been thirsty the entire time he was in Paris, and though I'd never thought about it, if you're used to carrying a trash-can-size cup filled with crushed ice and soda, I suppose it would be hard to spend a few weeks in Europe.

To spend your days in the company of naked men - that was the life for me.

Wants to set the world on fire, and if it can't happen by tomorrow morning at nine a.m., then life's just unfair and hardly worth living.

I looked from face to face, exaggerating flaws and reminding myself that these boys did not like me. The hope was that I might crush any surviving atom attraction, but as has been the case for my entire life, the more someone dislikes me the more attractive he becomes.

We sweat for our pretensions. It

This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn't work. I've tried it.

That's the problem with wishes, they ensnare you. In fairy tales they're nothing but trouble, magnifying the greed and vanity of the person for whom they are granted.

what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top.

You know how mice are—anything for a little affection.

I wanted it, I wanted it, I wanted it, but the moment it was mine, it ceased to interest me.

or unsafe sex with strangers?

bowl. It was disgusting to think that this was what a gumdrop might look like in your stomach, and it was insulting to be told not to take too much of something you didn't really want in the first place.

Yeah, and piss is just like honey if you're hungry enough.

but that's what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top.

It's beautiful, the Atlantic, but at the same time so insistent, always advancing, always taking what it wants.

My sisters and I refuse to feel bad about shopping. And why should we? Obviously we have some hole we're trying to fill, but doesn't everyone? And isn't filling it with berets the size of toilet-seat covers, if not more practical, then at least healthier than filling it with frosting or heroin or unsafe sex with strangers?