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Quotes About Desire

The illogic of it frightened them and they did everything they could to crush it. In fact, I think the reason they took such drastic steps was because they were not only frightened but also terribly attracted to it.
~ Donna Tartt
I am nothing in my soul if not possessive
~ Donna Tartt
we don't get to choose our own hearts. We can't make ourselves want what's good for us or what's good for other people. We don't get to choose the people we are.
~ Donna Tartt
As terrible as this is, I get it. WE can't choose what we want and don't want and that's the hard lonely truth. Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it's going to kill us. We can't escape who we are
~ Donna Tartt
Un yo que no quieres. Unos sentimientos que no puedes evitar.
~ Donna Tartt
The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything.
~ Donna Tartt
We don't like to admit it," said Julian, "but the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything.
~ Donna Tartt
What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can't be trusted —? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?
~ Donna Tartt
Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only-- if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn't it? And isn't the whole point of things--beautiful things--that they connect you to come larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another?...
~ Donna Tartt
I have been in love with no one, and never shall," she whispered, "unless it should be with you." How
~ Unknown
she drew me to her, and her hot lips travelled along my cheek in kisses; and she would whisper, almost in sobs, "You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one forever.
~ Unknown
It is better to be sought after than to offer one's self.
~ Unknown
Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so.
~ Unknown
In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die - die sweetly die - into mine.
~ Unknown
The world cannot satisfy the heart, because the heart is too large for the object.
~ J. Vernon McGee
A dreamer will not stop having that dream until it has been fulfilled
~ Unknown
God, you're so hot, Irena. When are we going to get together, have ourselves a litter of little kiggens?" "On the first of never, Andy. And they wouldn't be kiggens. They'd be pities.
~ J.A. Konrath
Never having something is different than having something and losing it.
~ J.A. Konrath
My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
~ J.C. Ryle
We can depend upon it that people will never come to Jesus and stay with Jesus and live for Jesus unless they really know why they are to come and what their need is.
~ J.C. Ryle
I have no desire to make an idol of holiness. I do not wish to dethrone Christ, and put holiness in His place. But I must candidly say, I wish sanctification was more thought of in this day than it seems to be, and I therefore take occasion to press the subject on all believers into whose hands these pages may fall.
~ J.C. Ryle
Recordemos que los placeres para los que viven millones de personas difieren, quizá, en su concepto de lo que constituye el verdadero placer, pero todos coinciden en tratar de obtenerlo por sobre todas las cosas.
~ J.C. Ryle
The door of mercy is set wide open. The door is not yet locked. The door can be opened. God's heart is full of love. God's heart is full of compassion. Whoever and whatever a person might have been, at midnight or at any time, whenever he returns to God, he will find God willing to receive him, ready to pardon him, and glad to have him at home. All things are ready. Whoever desires to enter can come in.
~ J.C. Ryle
El analista mira lo que el paciente desea".
~ Unknown