Quotes About Desire

Se preguntó si era su juventud y su inocencia lo que habían dado tanta intensidad a ese amor. Quizás eso explicara su pasión ciega e insaciable. Cuando en un espasmo mordía el hombro de Oki, ni siguiera advertía la sangre que manaba de la herida.

Nothing is so strange when one is in love.

Era el cuerpo de mujer lo que arrastraba al hombre a los círculos inferiores del infierno.

Si può cadere vivi nell'inferno per non precipitarvi chi si ama.»

But could there be anything uglier than an old man lying the night through beside a girl put to sleep, unwaking? Had he not come to this house seeking the ultimate in the ugliness of old age?

And what will you do now? You'll collect loves Like stamps. You've got doubles and no one Will trade you and you have the damaged ones.

I know a man who photographed the view he saw from the window of the room where he made love and not the face of the woman he loved there.

After you left me I had a bloodhound sniff at my chest and my belly. Let it fill its nostrils and set out to find you. I hope it will find you and rip your lover's balls to shreds and bite off his cock— or at least bring me one of your stockings between its teeth.

El deseo debe estar presente para que tenga lugar el acto de dar.

Una vez que nos abrimos al cambio, la primera acción crea un apetito por más cambio.

Ninguna de las cosas que más queremos en la vida es de naturaleza física.

Y por supuesto, siempre que hablamos de dinero rápido, arreglos provisionales y placer a corto plazo, estamos hablando de la dopamina.

This is the magic formula – desire toward a goal, which spawns action toward that goal. Continuous desire is the fuel. Daily action is the fire. The word "continuous" is important, as is the word "goal." Without these two operative functions, desires are scattered, actions are unfocused, and not much happens. With them, anything is achievable.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.

Perhaps sex isn't of the body at all. Perhaps it is a function of language.

Not everyone wants this conventional little life you're rowing your boat toward. I like my river of fire. And when it's time for me to go I fully intend to roll off my one-person dinghy into the flames and be consumed. I'm not afraid.

When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.

Sometimes I wonder if people don't want freedom as much as they want meaning.

How much longer on the divan? Why does sex have to mean everything? OK, it can mean something, but why everything? Why do thirty years have to go down the toilet because I wanted to touch somebody else? Am I missing something? Is this what it comes down to? Why does the sex have to mean everything?

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]

It hurts to look at what you can't have

More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs.

We did not desire or dread the boys in themselves, we only desired and dreaded being wanted or not being wanted.