Quotes About Desire

We all know it. We all know deep down inside that this world is not what it is supposed to be. We all yearn for things to be much better.

Subcreation is not just a desire, but a need and a right; it renews our vision and gives us new perspective and insight into ontological questions that might otherwise escape our notice within the default assumptions we make about reality.

Where there's chocolate, there's hope.

Like all great adventures, this one started with someone trying to get laid. King Menelaus didn't go to Troy for the baklava.

In the Boston of my childhood, willpower was all-important. If you wanted something badly enough, you could have it. This maxim included curing yourself of paralysis.

It seemed to me that transhumanism was an expression of the profound human longing to transcend the confusion and desire and impotence and sickness of the body, cowering in the darkening shadow of its own decay. This longing had historically been the domain of religion, and was now the increasingly fertile terrain of technology.

bodybuilding has come to be seen as a means by which boys can turn desire into identification.

Not permitted to desire another man's penis, the bodybuilder phallicizes that which he is permitted to desire: his own body.

There's a famous quote which goes something like, 'You are what you are, having secretly become what you wanted to be'. Maybe there's some truth to that. We like to think that society shapes us, but I don't think that that's the way it happens. Select, 1991

Nearly thirty years on, despite Pejic's unpopularity with some feminists and the closet-cases who write for US FHM, 1980s Marilyn and his shameless, shining desire to be desired looks more like a glamorous prophet, preparing the way for the Metrosexy 21st Century.

Sex is the theory; porn is the practice.

Everyone loves to be loved.

We still worship what we want our lives to feel like more than we worship Jesus.

What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfort Of being strangers, at least to ourselves.

But the comfortable life is a slippery slope toward the consumer life.

instead of purifying my character I was multiplying my wants.

The comfortable life is a slippery slope toward the consumer life.

What could make me not listen to the music in my heart every time I see you?

What you seek is what you will find, but only if you hunt it with all your heart and mind.

That sounded like love, Pino thought. When I fall in love, I think it will feel just like that.

God damn it! Where's my wine?

Tullio and his date leave, thinking once again how much he wanted

mind long after he couldn't see them anymore. His urge was to go after the

practicing scales floated out. Pino kept up the chase, but then he noticed a pretty girl—black hair, creamy skin, and flashing dark eyes. She was making her way across the piazza, heading toward the Galleria. He skidded to a halt and watched her. Flooded with longing, he was unable to speak. After she passed, Pino said, "I think I'm falling in love." "Falling on your face maybe," said Carletto, who'd