Quotes About Desire

Lo que sentía por Eduardo era más parecido a la nostalgia que al espíritu aventurero del amor tradicional, pero no era un sentimiento menos fuerte. Comprendió que, si verdaderamente buscaba la pureza, nunca la encontraría en sí mismo.

I felt that he was a captive of financial and sentimental commitments, like every other man I know, and that he was no more free to fall in love with a strange woman he saw on a street corner than he was to take a walking trip through French Guiana or to recommence his life in Chicago under an assumed name.

Rachel's way was not so easy. When she lost her fat she became very pretty and quite fast. She smoked and drank and probably fornicated and the abyss that opens up before a pretty and an intemperate young woman is unfathomable.

I would like to bring to people something like happiness. I would like to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start right away to rain. If one of my friends is ill, I'd like to play a certain song and he will be cured; when he'd be broke, I'd bring out a different song and immediately he'd receive all the money he needed.

Suddenly, with a cynical frankness, he began comparing his feelings for these two girls. 'The truth is,' he said to himself, 'I love them both! I love Gerda because she's so simple, and because I've slept with her all these months ; and I love Christie because she's so subtle, and because I've never slept with her!

Being a philosopher, rather than a neophyte in sanctity, Mr. Gaul did not feel it at all incumbent upon him to refrain from contemplating Perdita's legs.

She still required the dangerous, maddening nerve-quiver of vice to render existence bearable.

The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.

I don't care whether I make money. I don't care whether I get fame. I don't care whether I leave any work behind me when I die. All I want is certain sensations!' And

What mortals call Sex is only a manifestation in human life, and in animal and vegetable life, of a certain spasm, a certain delicious shudder, a certain orgasm of a purely psychic nature, which belongs to the Personality of the First Cause.

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.

The things that scare us the most are also what we want most in life.

If life was supposed to be easy I wouldn't be sitting here trying to figure out ways to get you to fall in love with me.

I drove for miles and miles and wound up at your door. I've had you so many times but somehow I want more.

He ignores you, but somehow you fall for him more every day. He does nothing, but yet that's enough to win you over.

Don't get too attached to someone you know you can't be together with.

Everyone tells me I should forget about you, you don't deserve me. They're right, you don't deserve me, but I deserve you.

The saddest part of love life is when you cannot live with or without the one you love.

When you want them they don't want you, when they want you , you don't want them. But when you both want each other, something has to come along and mess it up.

Love is the most beautiful thing to have, hardest thing to earn and most hurtful thing to lose.

We fall in love with people we can't have.

It is better to have what you can't love than to love what you cant have.

Sometimes the person you want most, is the person you're best without.