Quotes About Desire

Are you quite certain you won't mind having a virgin on your hands?" Not that she imagined she would remain that way for much longer. The penis pressing against her seemed to say that her time as a virgin was down to mere minutes.

He who is greedy is always in want.

The covetous man is ever in want.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

No ascent is too steep for mortals. Heaven itself we seek in our folly.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

De todas las mujeres que conocí en el mundo vivo, ninguna produjo en mí el efecto que Enid. La impresión fue tan fuerte que la imagen y el recuerdo mismo de todas las mujeres se borró. En mi alma se hizo de noche, donde se alzó un solo astro imperecedero: Enid. La sola posibilidad de que sus ojos llegaran a mirarme sin indiferencia, deteníame bruscamente el corazón. Y ante la idea de que alguna vez podía ser mía, la mandíbula me temblaba.

Ya no pedían más belleza e inteligencia como en el primogénito; ¡pero un hijo, un hijo como todos!

Con los mellizos pareció haber concluido la aterradora descendencia. Pero pasados tres años desearon de nuevo ardientemente otro hijo, confiando en que el largo tiempo transcurrido hubiera aplacado a la fatalidad.

Ten fe ciega no en tu capacidad para el triunfo, sino en el ardor con que lo deseas. Ama a tu arte como a tu novia, dándole todo tu corazón.

En lo que no tiene razón. Que me guste desesperadamente, muy bien. Pero que vaya yo a exigir el pago de un pagaré de amor firmado sobre una carpeta de meningitis, ¡diablo! eso no.

Y cuando no tenga más delirio… me querrás todavía?

Love of novelties has been the shipwreck of many a soul.

What is "love"? Is that... the true form of this agony? Is "love" the name you give to this pain?

Why do you always want the things that you cannot have...

I want the moon, up there. But... he will always be unreachable.

What keeps this boy going...is the intense feeling of not wanting to be alone.

I want adventure in the great wide somewhere. I want it more than I can tell. And for once it might be grand To have someone understand I want so much more than they've got planned…

I wish I were not sensual... I wish I had not got from my mother, or my father was it, this need to grasp and be grasped, because it drives me into the arms of idiots who want to crush me. Wonderful, idiotic, crushing in the night. Can't you just crush me in the night?

Moved by deep love, a man is courageous. And with frugality, a man becomes generous. And he who does not desire to be ahead of the world becomes the leader of the world.

Jadi, jika aku ditanyai, "Apa yang harus kulakukan untuk menjadi penulis sukses?" Aku akan menjawab bahwa kau harus menginginkannya lebih daripada kau menginginkan yang lain.

Was he a bad man or just a foolish one? He didn't feel bad to himself. As a husband he believed himself to be essentially good and loyal. It just wasn't written in a man's nature to be monogamous, that was all. And he owed something to his nature even when his nature was at odds with his desire, which was to stay at home and cherish his wife. It was his nature – all nature, the rule of nature – that was the bastard, not him.

At any age there is future one doesn't have. Never enough life when you are happy, that was the thing. Never so much bliss that you can't take a little more.

At the very heart of being a merchant is a desire to tell a story by making sensory, emotional connections. Once, twice, or 16,000 times.