Quotes About Desire

Tive agora a noção do que é ser pobre, ao desejar ter fortuna para dar ao meu filho

But how explain the perennial vigor of envy? — a vice that brings nothing in!

Then, as we desire all the more violently the things we find difficult to obtain, he continued to adore women with that ingenuous tenderness and feline delicacy the secret of which belongs to women themselves, who may, perhaps, prefer to keep the monopoly of it. In point of fact, though women of the world complain of the way men love them, they have little liking themselves for those whose soul is half feminine.

Woe to the man, as to the woman, who has left no desire unsatisfied! All is over then.

La avaricia empieza cuando se acaba la pobreza

Oscar had reached that last quarter of adolescence when little things cause immense joys and immense miseries, — a period when youth prefers misfortune to a ridiculous suit of clothes, and caring nothing for the real interests of life, torments itself about frivolities, about neckcloths, and the passionate desire to appear a man.

Al principio de la pasión, los obstáculos asustan a las personas sin experiencia, y los que encontraban los dos amantes se parecían mucho a las ataduras con que los liliputienses habían atado a Gulliver. Eran cosas sin importancia que al multiplicarse hacían imposible todo impulso y anulaban los más violentos deseos.

La santa criatura ignoraba que donde empieza la ambición cesan los sentimientos ingenuos.

a clerk, a machine, a riding-school hack, eating and drinking and sleeping at fixed hours. I should be like everyone else. And that's what they call living, that life at the grindstone, doing the same thing over and over again.... I am hungry and nothing is offered to appease my appetite.

How much better to be dead at thirty!' — Well, you thought I was melancholy, and you played all sorts of pranks to amuse me, and between two kisses I said, 'Every day some pretty woman leaves the play before it is over!' — And I do not want to see the last piece; that is all.

La cuestión del vestido es, por otra parte, de gran importancia para quienes quieren aparentar que tienen lo que no tienen, porque es a menudo el mejor medio de poseerlo más adelante.

Are not our feelings the most glorious part of our life? It is this partial death which, in certain delicate or powerful natures, leads to the terrible ruin produced by disenchantment, by hopes and passions betrayed.

Nothing tempts a young man more than to play the part of a good genius to a woman.

What hopes must it raise in a young creature who, in the midst of sordid elements, had pined for a life of elegance! A sunbeam had fallen into the prison. Augustine was suddenly in love.

I used to want to know everything, to be learned; and one thing I did learn thoroughly — I knew that I was not wanted here on earth.

Agathe rose; her scissors and work fell at her feet; she went and kissed Joseph's head, and dropped two tears on his hair. "He is your passion, that fellow," said the painter. "We all have our hopeless passions

Once, she'd dreamed about being taken care of by this man. But this care didn't have the sugared taste she'd imagined.

I see no room in this city for the gentle ways of love, for precious walks in shady alleys, the full moon sparkling on the water, while the suppliant pleads in vain. Rich, young, and beautiful, I have only to love, and love would become my sole occupation, my life; yet in the three months during which I have come and gone, eager and curious, nothing has appealed to me in the bright, covetous, keen eyes around me. No voice has thrilled me, no glance has made the world seem brighter.

Who is she? Did you know her young? What of her birth? Had she father and mother, or was she born of the conjunction of ice and sun? She burns and yet she freeze; she shows herself and then withdraws; she attracts me and repulses me; she brings me life, she gives me death; I love her and yet I hate her! I cannot live thus; let me be wholly in heaven or in hell!

No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Passion is born deaf and dumb.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.