Quotes About Desire

I don't want to not see you again.

I don't know what I want. I said that at some point, I think. But it isn't that, it's that I don't want anyone to tell me what I want, or to make decisions for me. That's why I left you, Dr. Mensah, my favorite human. By the time you get this I'll be leaving Corporation Rim. Out of inventory and out of sight. Murderbot end message.

And if it was this hard with Ratthi and Pin-Lee (Gurathin had never liked me and it was mutual), what was it going to be like with Mensah, if I managed to get that far? I didn't know if I could trust them. I wanted to. But I want a lot of things—freedom, unlimited downloads, new episodes of Drama Sun Islands—most of which I wasn't going to get.

But I want a lot of things—freedom, unlimited downloads, new episodes of Drama Sun Islands—most of which I wasn't going to get.

I don't know what I want. I said that at some point, I think. But it isn't that, it's that I don't want anyone to tell me what I want, or to make decisions for me.

He didn't know what he wanted most, a shower or to get his vaccinations renewed.

Arabella's mother that tempting?

Sex has become much more competitive, with the girls becoming sort of predators as well. It's ferocious.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

When we desire to lead men to God, we must not simply overthrow their idols. In each of these images we must seek to discover what divine quality he who carved it sought.

On a higher level we find fictions that men eagerly believe, regardless of the evidence, because they gratify some wish.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire. Not

that overwhelming desire to find a way to succeed, if only to be spared public humiliation.

The emptiness of your knowing everything about things you want to change, can't change anything.

You make me sick! You are offered meat and you choose a banana-split-with-nuts.

I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

If a man can eat his fill and have a willing bedmate in the same place every night, he quickly grows lazy.

Sex doesn't sell anything other than itself

As James U. McNeal, a professor of marketing at Texas A&M University, puts it, "75 percent of spontaneous food purchases can be traced to a nagging child. And one out of two mothers will buy a food simply because her child requests it. To trigger desire in a child is to trigger desire in the whole family.

Desire is always linked to a story, and to a gap that needs to be filled: a yearning that intrudes, agitates and motivates human behavior both consciously and unconsciously.

We desire whatever it is—the place, the person, the thing, the period in our lives—we're convinced we're lacking. The

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.