Quotes About Desire

So las ich falsch in deinem Aug, dem tiefen? Kein heimlich Sehnen sah ich heiß dort funkeln? Es birgt zu deiner Seele keine Pforte Dein feuchter Blick? Die Wünsche, die dort schliefen, Wie stille Rosen in der Flut, der dunkeln, Sind, wie dein Plaudern: seellos... Worte, Worte?

Il n'y a rien de coupable. L'instant n'est pas coupable, c'est seulement de vouloir le retenir qui n'est pas permis. Seul le fait de se cramponner à ce qui ne se laisse pas retenir... (89)

Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.

Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem

You can never get enough of what you don't really want.

To try to extinguish the drive for riches with money is like trying to quench a fire by pouring butter over it.

HB: So why does a person get involved with someone who's entirely wrong for him? NG: I think the answer, quite simply, is that you don't always get to decide to whom you give your heart.

Addiction is the result of deep, and unmet needs.

am forever reminded of the eight unavoidable sufferings: birth, old age, pain, one's own death, the death of a loved one, evil people, frustrated desire and lust.

Always Hungry and Stay Hungry.

God's judgment on sin is reliable, for his Word is faithful, but even more consistent is God's desire to restore wandering sinners to himself. Grace is always God's last word.

For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.

In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man was insufficient for even the smallest part of the wonders that lay within. It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn.

drunk enough on earth's liquors to relish the prospect of the knife.

Because every desire has its proper object...people spend their lives wanting things the shouldn't. The world confuses them into taking heir love and aiming it where it doesn't belong...All it takes to be happy is to love the right things, in the right amounts. Not money. Not books. People. Adults who don't understand that never feel fulfilled...

I felt almost sick with wanting to tell her how I felt, but I couldn't think of words to suit my feelings.

Yet I didn't much want to go home.

Sex and drugs and rock and rollIs all my brain and body needSex and drugs and rock and rollIs very good indeed.

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

It's just that I'd rather die of drink than of thirst.

All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.

Por ti sería carne sin alma para gozarte en una cópula que haría sonrojar de vergüenza y de espanto a la misma Venus.

I just want to be rich and famous.