Quotes About Desire

I feared death and I loved life. I yearned to live long enough to smoke one more cigarette, drink one more drink, experience seven more seconds of obscene bliss, and then, perhaps, but most likely not, I could die. All

Thousands more must be staring into darkness like us, gripped by scandalous thoughts, extravagant hopes, and forbidden plots. We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to live.

The colonized is a persecuted person whose permanent dream is to become the persecutor.

Hypnotized by my squid's call and my erection's response, I inserted the latter into the former, which was, unfortunately, a perfect fit. Unfortunate because from then onward no squid was safe from me, not to say that this diluted form of bestiality—after all, hapless squid, you were dead, though I now see how that raises other moral questions—not to say this transgression occurred often, since squid was a rare treat in our landlocked town.

While the clerks chatted in a language I could not understand, I hesitated, yearning to take everything home but unable to choose.

Before I only wanted to change the world. I still want that, but it was ironic how I never wanted to change myself. Yet that's where revolutions start!

I've tried love," Louis said, as if it were a kind of soft, malodorous French cheese.

Am i a photograph you gaze at in moments of weakness? You ordered me off my knees into your arms Wasn't to beg that I knelt; only to see you once from below.

The war against the English was premised against a desire by the European settlers to break out of the Thirteen Colonies and conquer the entire continent; this was a war for colonization, not a war against colonialism.

Ordinary people live wanting, all their life. Successful people are willing to work for all their wants.

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I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?

The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she would agree.

I may have entered her body, but now I want to enter her mind.

Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.' 'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.' 'When are we happy?' 'When we desire nothing and realize that possession is only momentary, and so are forever playing.' 'What is regret?' 'To realize that one has spent one's life worrying about the future.' 'What is sorrow?' 'To long for the past.' 'What is the highest pleasure?' 'To hear a good story.

Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.

To steel yourself against mangoes showed a degree of iciness that was almost inhuman.

you will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.

Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.

Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.

A happy man is one who wants what he has. An unhappy man gets what he wants but never stops wanting.

Darkness shows no wrong path to those who get what they want before dark.

Everybody wishes to know, but nobody is ready to pay the price.

Failure is nothing but wishes plus lack.