Quotes About Desire

you can molest someone without touching them, without even saying anything. Just the inappropriate desire can be harmful.

Men were strictly for pleasure and for experimenting with versions of the self.

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.

...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.

He says he's lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she's lonely too. She doesn't say why.

I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn't love.

I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.

The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which I could never have; however that may be, my loves have left me more often than I have left them, for I have never been able to understand how one could have enough of any beloved. The desire to count up exactly the riches which each new love brings us, and to see it change, and perhaps watch it grow old, accords ill with multiplicity of conquests.

I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire.

On n'est pas libre tant qu'on désire, qu'on veut, qu'on craint, peut-être tant qu'on vit.

Maybe it only hurt so much because my body was in a solid state . . . I always tried to keep up appearances, and yet at the same time the thing I really wanted, the one thing I truly desired, was my liquefaction.

If There Be Sorrow If there be sorrow let it be for things undone undreamed unrealized unattained to these add one: Love withheld ... restrained

We've all been there, done stupid things for love.

Schopenhauer once put it, we insist on living our lives "with great interest and much solicitude as long as possible, just as we blow out a soap-bubble as long and as large as possible, although with the perfect certainty that it will burst.

Love is a slippery, unruly thing, and trying to control it robs us of its delicious unpredictability.

Lacan is concerned with lack as the ontological underpinning of human existence.

What we most care about in the world—and particularly what we cannot help caring about on the unconscious level—influences our fate by shaping us into the sorts of persons we are.

Una mujer capaz de placer puede convertirse en rebelde, puede traicionar a su dueño y señor, puede buscar lejos del lecho connyugal este placer, puede burlar el dominio del varón y darle una descendencia ilegítima para escarnio y estafa de la sacrosanta ley de la herencia.

I frantically opened my address book and searched it for someone, anyone, who'd moved me, who'd been good in both bed and brain. No. A slew of the so-so.

Making someone fall out of love, particularly when it is the kind of love that is meant to be, is much harder than murder.

Some days I'm just sixteen, and sixteen isn't what I want to be.

instead of the smoldering, soul-baring, Abelard-to-Heloise-sans-castration solicitations you rightfully deserve, you're getting stupefying lines like: "I'm listening to NPR. Do you want to come over and make out?