Quotes About Desire

You can't make them love you, but you can show them what they're missing out on.

Stop being so upset about the things you don't have that you forget to enjoy the things you already have.

It makes me mad because I wanna be happy so bad.

I wanted you for nothing more, than hating you for what you were.

Hes not the only one to want something he cant ever have. He needs to stop being so upset about the past and live in the moment or whatever.

Until you take action to be, what you desire to be, you continue to be, what you are.

I guess I was so blinded by who I wanted you to be, that I didn't see who you really were.

Lo que yo quería era mi madre, decirle adiós, y ya había ido muy lejos por aquel camino que llevaba a la realización de mi deseo para poder volverme atrás.

I gazed at Albertine's cheeks as she spoke, and wondered what might be the perfume, the taste of them: that day they were not cool but glowed with a uniform pink, violet-tinted, creamy, like certain roses that have a waxy gloss. I felt a passionate longing for them such as one feels sometimes for a particular flower.

Pero yo seguía diciéndole: - Ven a la alcoba a darme un beso -aterrorizado al ver cómo ascendía por la pared el reflejo de la bujía de mi padre, pero utilizando su inminente aparición como un medio de intimidación.

Fiquei a olhá-la, a princípio com esse olhar que não é mais que o porta-voz dos olhos, mas à janela do qual se inclinam todos os sentidos, ansiosos e petrificados, olhar que desejaria tocar, capturar, trazer consigo o corpo que está mirando, e com ele a alma.

Les pays que nous désirons tiennent à chaque moment beaucoup plus de place dans notre vie véritable, que le pays où nous nous trouvons effectivement.

To tell the truth, I had reached the point with Albertine where (if everything continues in the same way, if things follow the normal course) a woman has no more interest for us except as the means of transition to another woman.

Amava-a, lamentava não ter tido tempo nem a inspiração de ofendê-la, de fazer-lhe mal, de forçá-la a se lembrar de mim. Achava-a tão linda que desejaria retroceder para gritar-lhe, erguendo os ombros: "Como a acho feia, ridícula, como você me repugna".

when she heard the grand title and the great name, her face had taken on that indifferent look—no, more than indifferent, hostile, contemptuous—which is the sign of frustrated desire in proud and passionate natures. Albertine's nature was splendid, but its hidden qualities had been able to develop only under the restrictions constituted by our tastes, or our mourning for the tastes which we have had to renounce

We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.

We find desiring innocent, and hideous that the other should desire.

Love teaches us much, but also it much corrupts us.

Le désir fleurit, la possession flétrit toutes choses

For old age makes us incapable of performing our duties but not, at first, of desiring them.

The need for dreams, the desire to be made happy by the woman one has dreamed of, means that it can take no time at all to settle all one's chances of happiness on someone who a few days earlier was no more than a fortuitous, unknown, commonplace apparition on the boards of a theater.

But really Legrandin had no need to remind people so often that he belonged to another planet when all his uncontrollable impulses of anger or affability were governed by the desire to occupy a good position on this one.

Without being ready to fix a date, I longed to put an end to this existence which I blamed for making me renounce not so much work as pleasure. It would happen also, however, that the habits which bound me were suddenly abolished, generally when some former self, full of the desire to live a merry life, took the place of what was my self at the moment.

Any life that represents something mysterious, like some last illusion to be shattered, exerts a pull on us.