Quotes About Desire

Only a fool asks for happiness in this foolish, worn world. We are . . . content . . . together. That is enough for a while.

This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started.

I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

Being taken seriously means missing out on the chance to be frivolous, promiscuous, and irrelevant. The desire to be taken seriously is precisely what compels people to follow the tried and true paths of knowledge production around which I would like to map a few detours.

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

Amar es dar lo que no se tiene

Stevenson, though, Was soon enough reduced to the timeless lamentations of the I-Matang on an atoll: "I think I could shed tears over a dish of turnips," he wrote in a letter. And elsewhere: "I had learned to welcome shark's fresh for a variety; and a mountain, an onion, an Irish potato or beefsteak, had long had been long lost to sense and dear to aspiration.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

The heart knows no logic beyond need and desire; the head has no senses except the common and the pragmatic. Neither, frankly, is particularly useful in love, anyway.

[Spoken by Gollum:] Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.

The gift is the gift of the path to a richer, more responsible humanness; authenticity includes the choice to make an act of will despite desire, not simply bringing desire and will into line. To choose to believe, to choose to continue to believe, to choose to be faithful, loyal, and trustworthy, despite all the pressures to unbelief and disloyalty, is typical of the choices that constitute, or contribute toward, the life of Christian virtue.

There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward all sentient beings, respectful to seniors and kind to juniors, not excluding or desiring anything, with no designing thoughts or worries, you will be called a buddha. Do not seek anything else.

I'd bite myself and take out my feelings with my teeth.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Oh Bernard she sighed fervently I certinly love you madly you are to me like a Heathen god she cried looking at his manly form and handsome flashing face I will indeed marry you.

I wanted," she counts on her fingers, performing the sitcom of her tragedy, "Tribeca loft, expense account, designer clothes so haute they don't look it, my very own Tesla, summer home in the Hamptons I'm too busy to use." "You wanted money," says Justin. Brianna: "It went down with the towers.

She longed for a letter that was for her and her alone, a letter which would give her some glimpse into his heart.

Is that all I have to look forward to? Comfort? I think I should prefer to be happy." "As you grow older, there is a lot to be said for being comfortable, ma'am. But I don't expect you to believe me. When I was your age I too wanted to be happy.

You do want to see him, but at the same time you don't. He attracts and repels you equally.