Quotes About Desire

You know, the things that matter in life are really hard to get.

You want what you want and they want what they want, but God does what He wants.

You will never get disappointed if you do not desire what you do not deserve.

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

Our desire gives birth to sin (v. 15), but God's truth gives birth to our renewed spirits as believers in Jesus Christ (v. 18), so that "we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created." Of

the evil desire for autonomy is so ingrained in fallen man's thinking that he insists that he has such freedom, and even asserts that the Bible acknowledges it.

Their rebellion is such that if God does not provide the desired information in the ways that they prefer, or if he does not agree with their desires, then they are determined to get what they want from the devil.

I will not live without love.

Sometimes, dear brother, I know so well what I want. I am quite able to do without God, both in my life and in my painting, but what I cannot do without, unwell as I am, is something greater than myself, which is my life, the power to create.

I am so angry with myself because I cannot do what I should like to do, and at such a moment one feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well, utterly helpless.

At present this horror of life is already less pronounced, and the melancholy less acute. But I still have no will, and hardly any desires, or none at all that are to do with ordinary life.

It quite often makes me feel sad that painting's like a bad mistress one might have, who's always spending, spending and it's never enough.. [Letter 630, Arles, 23 June 1888]

Aspiro alle stelle che non posso raggiungere.

What kind of love was it that I felt when I was twenty? It is difficult to define - my physical passions were very weak then, perhaps because of a few years of great poverty and hard work. But my intellectual passions were strong, meaning that without asking anything in return, without wanting any pity, I wanted only to give, but not to receive. Foolish, wrong, exaggerated, proud, rash - for in love one must not only give, but also take; and, reversing it, one must not only take but also give.

Para ter sucesso é preciso ambição, e a ambição me parece absurda.

Aqui, exceto a liberdade, exceto muitas outras coisas que eu gostaria que fossem diferentes, não estou muito mal.

Em algum lugar teu coração bate por mim Em algum lugar teus olhos se fecham à idéia dos meus.

Oh, tudo é tão triste A casa, o jardim, o teu olhar, o meu olhar, o olhar de Deus...

Essa mulher que a cada amor proclama A miséria e a grandeza de quem ama E guarda a marca dos meus dentes nela. Essa mulher é um mundo! – uma cadela Talvez... – mas na moldura de uma cama Nunca mulher nenhuma foi tão bela!

At any given point of time, you are exactly what you wanted to be.

The real aim of romance is to provide escape and entertainment.

My passionate puritan!

There isn't anything very tender about being in love...it's a cruel and clamouring hunger.