Quotes About Desire

Happiness does not come only when you get something even greater. It's something you feel when you hope for less and are sufficiently satisfied with what you have now" (104).

cuantas veces deseara, siempre que fuera en ausencia de Bernat, lo que, atendidas sus obligaciones, sucedía con mucha frecuencia. —Y eso también cambiará —le aseguró Mercè. —No.

el que tiene dinero quiere más; nunca lo ha regalado y nunca lo hará.

Spiritual desire is the experience of God's presence in us or it may be the absence of God as well, since a feeling of absence may stimulate a yearning for God. It is the experience of delightful love and fearful emptiness.

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

Why can't you like me?" he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a welter of contradictions: apples and fire and electric roil of those cold, black shadows. "Why can't you like me just a little?" She would never know how she might have answered, because he never gave her the chance. Instead, he kissed her.

Sometimes you don't know what you need until it's gone

I don't know what I expected. No, I'm lying. I know what I wanted.

This Army of Light was mine. I had summoned it. I had DRAWN it. Could I have stopped it? I don't know. The truth is, I didn't want to.

You want to brawl. You want to fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes.

You step out of the shower and the entire nation calms— a drop of lemon-egg shampoo, you smell like bees, a brief kiss, I don't know anything about you—except the spray of freckles on your shoulders! which makes me feel so thrillingly alone. I stand on earth in my pajamas, penis sticking out— for years in your direction.

I love art more than virtue, more than people, more than people, more than family, more than friends, more than any kind of happiness or joy in life. I love it secretly, jealously, like an old drunkard - incurably.

Sophia is the best thing that's ever happened to me. I guess this is what all the songs mean when they talk about love. I want to swim in her, swallow her, breathe her.

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.

Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors.

We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.

I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

att inte vilja annat än kritik - denna måttlighet är den sanna radikalismen.

Érzem, mi hitvány a föld, hogy magas Lelkem lezárja, s vágyom el köréb?l; De visszasírok, fáj, hogy elszakadtam.

Kumazawa:—"When others blame thee, blame them not; when others are angry at thee, return not anger. Joy cometh only as Passion and Desire part.

O lord how sweet it is, how tempting, is life.

This is it, the most powerful thing in the world because all men go crazy for it, more precious than gold since for its sake rich men lose fortunes, sweeter than power because craving for it makes leaders of countries risk their jobs, more powerful than honor because it makes fools of respectable men… It's more powerful than all the world for it contains the whole world plus heaven and hell beside… The power of this grace makes nuclear bombs look like firecrackers.

But nothing could be held true for the rest of one's life, every coveted thing in the end was maya, illusion, a myth, and this the great sages of India had always understood --- little was real. We were put on this earth transitorily; we deposited our genes in offspring; deluded ourselves that we would be missed when we were gone; pretended that money, wealth, titles, and land were to be desired. But every such thing was ephemeral, prone to change. The only reason to live was love.