Quotes About Desire

And if she had appeared, would I have dared to speak to her? I felt that she would have regarded me as mad, for I no longer thought of those desires which came to me on my walks, but were never realized, as being shared by others, or as having any existence apart from myself.

O modo inquisitivo, ansioso, exigente com que olhamos para a pessoa amada, nossa expectativa da palavra que nos vai dar ou tirar a esperança de um encontro para o dia seguinte, e, até que essa palavra seja dita, a nossa imaginação alternada, se não simultânea, da alegria e do desespero, tudo isso torna a nossa atenção em face do ente querido muito trêmula para que se possa obter uma imagem sua devidamente nítida.

to seek happiness in the satisfaction of a desire of the mind was as naive as to attempt to reach the horizon by walking straight ahead. The further the desire advances, the further does real possession recede. So that if happiness, or at least the absence of suffering, can be found, it is not the satisfaction, but the gradual reduction and eventual extinction of desire that one should seek.

Mademoiselle Albertine gitti!

El deseo nos fuerza a amar lo que nos hará sufrir.

The very desire for the new is merely the hunger of the soul seeking form

Il étreignait ses seins métalliques et attachait sa bouche sur ses lèvres d'un violet sombre.

Il regarda sa fille et la trouva vierge et désirable.

Y las dos sombras blancas se turbaron, sin atreverse a decir nada. Porque su beso no tenía ya aguijón, ni olor salvaje, y como el deseo de las ovejas, de las cabras, de los pájaros y de las cigarras disminuía en su corazón, el placer de tocar sus cuerpos no los agitó ya con su estremecimiento.

Cuando me di cuenta que el mundo era como esa naranja me dieron unas ganas tremendas de comerme un pedazo del mundo. Sentía una sed terrible y los dientes se me salían de la boca por ir a darle un mordisco.

Cuando a través de la vida una ha sido una mujer reservada y pudorosa, y con serios intentos de lealtad salpicando esta monotonía, resulta dificilísimo reconocer el deseo. Éste se escapa, esquivo, huye de rama en rama, aflora sólo para volver a ocultarse, temible, a disfrazar los sentires, dejando el interior sin manejo alguno, impredecible.

Y si contemplas las estrellas y se te llena el alma de imposibles, es que mi soledad viene a besarte.

No me dejará sin fumar, es para lo único que me queda voluntad.

Penso che da giovani si combatte per sconfiggere i peccati capitali senza sapere che nell'età adulta non saranno le virtù a neutralizzarli, bensì i peccati stessi. Per esempio, a lungo andare la gola prende il sopravvento sulla vanità e l'ignavia sulla lussuria.

For some reason I want to keep a secret. I want to cup it in my hands and keep it safe like an egg. I want to old it in the corner of my cheek where it is safe and dark.

For some reason I want to keep a secret. I want to cup it in my hands and keep it safe like an egg. I want to fold it in the corner of my cheek where it is safe and dark." -Without Tess, Marcella Pixley

For some reason I want to keep a secret. I want to cup it in my hands and keep it safe like an egg. I want to fold it in the corner of my cheek where it is safe and dark.

Niet om onzentwil, maar omdat vader en moeder naar een aardig speelpopje verlangen, wordt een kind de levenstaak opgelegd.

I gazed out the window and wished for the thousandth time that rape were punishable by penis removal… with a rusty knife.

women hated her, and the men saw her as the girl they could never get. Dale

Comenzó a pasar más tiempo esperando a su príncipe azul que estando con él.

Each is free to be everything the other desires, we fulfil each other's fantasies, and do not risk the boredom of familiarity.

O sea que el amor es el cuento del tío por el que de pronto te venden lo que vos no querías ni regalado.

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.