Quotes About Desire

Espera-se que o terapeuta ou analista empurre o paciente na direção de seu desejo. Aliás, é por isso que uma terapia leva tempo, porque, antes de empurrar, é preciso que esse desejo consiga se manifestar

Sometimes Alberta felt as if there were a conspiracy against her, as if the whole world were in agreement not to say a word. A foolish desire to shake people – But speak out, can't you – would come over her. If she did not do so, it was because we really can remain on the verge of action for a long time without doing anything.

There was something she should have experienced, something besides this. There was a path somewhere that she could not find. It was and it was not her own fault.

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

If only my heart were stone.

Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.

Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.

Perversion is an ends-and-purposes disease. Most broadly understood, perversion is the turning of loyalty, energy, and desire away from God and God's project in the world: it is the diversion of construction materials for the city of God to side projects of our own, often accompanied by jerry-built ideologies that seek to justify the diversion.

The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.

That's a man's vital spot, the helpless thing he loves. ("Jane Brown's Body")

To be worshiped, though I didn't realize it at the moment, is a far more dangerous situation to be in than simply to be desired.

He was standing by the window, looking down, when I went in. Even the sight of his back, sloping a little at the top with the inclination of his head, did something to me. And anyone that can love a back, can love. ("Don't Wait Up For Me Tonight")

what is cruelty but the giving of pain in the taking of pleasure?

One sometimes kills for the love of it.

And what is love anyway but the unattainable, the reaching out toward an illusion?

I wanna be the girl with the most cake.

I want to be the girl with the most cake.

everyone knows how to lose weight—it's just a matter of wanting it badly enough to make it work

I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I'd adopt.

Easy, laid back and sexy as all get out. That pretty much summed up Josh Dixon. And none of those things were what she should be thinking about right now. Untrustworthy, unreliable and unfaithful. That's what she should be thinking.

She couldn't deny that a part of her was tipping over the precipice that held up her resolve. A part of her was falling for every single word, every crooked smile, every flash of his blue eyes.