Quotes About Desire

I don't think I've ever known what you people call happiness. We think of contentment as the desirable thing, and maybe that's negative.

He was concupiscent as a rabbit and gentle as hell.

This was a man, she thought, a man of complete manness. This was the kind of a man that a pure woman would want to have because he wouldn't even want to be part woman. He would be content with his own sex. He wouldn't ever try to understand women and that would be a relief. He would just take what he wanted from them.

Why, of course you can go. Aren't you happy here?" "I don't think I've ever known what you people call happiness. We think of contentment as the desirable thing, and maybe that's negative.

And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey--a look of longing. Lord! I wish I could go.

There's something desirable about anything you're to as opposed to something you're not.

Se dice que los humanos no se satisfacen jamás, que se les da una cosa y siempre quieren algo más. Y se dice esto con erróneo desprecio, ya que es una de las mayores virtudes que tiene la especie y la que la hace superior a los animales que se dan por satisfechos con lo que tienen.

At this very moment Pablo Sanchez happened to be sitting in the ditch at the side of the road, wishing he had a cigarette and a glass of wine. Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God. Pablo

He used it to haul squids and he liked a fresh breeze to blow in his face. His name was Francis Almones and he had a sad life, for he always made just a fraction less than he needed to live.

I want a cold drink.

You love beer so much. I'll bet some day you'll go in and order a beer milk shake.

She liked the idea so well that she felt there must be something bordering on sin involved in it.

If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor inside hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do'll make him feel rich

Cathy spoke very quietly. "Adam, I didn't want to come here. I am not going to stay here. As soon as I can I will go away.

Dessie was not beautiful. Perhaps she wasn't even pretty, but she had the glow that makes men follow a woman in the hope of reflecting a little of it.

Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough.

Dar Fauna era convinsa, dintr-o indelungata experienta proprie, ca in primul rand oamenii nu stiu ce vor, ca in al doilea rand nu stiu cum sa obtina ceea ce vor si ca in al treilea rand nu stiu sa profite de ceea ce au.

Wisht I knowed what all the sins was, so I could do 'em.

So often men trip by being in a rush. If one were properly to perform a difficult and subtle act, he should first inspect the end to be achieved and then, once he had accepted the end as desirable, he should forget it completely and concentrate solely on the means. By this method he would not be moved to false action by anxiety or hurry or fear. Very few people learn this.

Saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation—a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

Ma put down her head and she fought with a desire to cry.

Jesus, I seen it happen too many times. I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.