Quotes About Desire

It is these moments that have led me here This need I had to sleep beside you That has caused all the trouble in my life. - excerpt from "Wanting You

down to her for a deep, openmouthed kiss flavored with her taste. He groaned hoarsely, sweeping

They were both dreamed only by the one they would have liked to be for each other.

En bon Italien, Guccio pensa que la chose serait plaisante de séduire à la fois et la fille et la mère.

Litigation can become as great a passion as gambling.

For it is our most secret desire that governs and dominates all. If your eyes look for nothing but evil, you will always see evil triumphant; but if you have learned to let your glance rest on sincerity, simpleness, truth, you will ever discover, deep down in all things, the silent overpowering victory of that which you love.

It is sad to love and be unloved, but sadder still to be unable to love.

We are not wrong, perhaps, to be heedful of justice in the midst of a universe that heeds not at all; as the bee is not wrong to make honey in a world that itself can make none. But we are wrong to desire an external justice, since we know that it does not exist. Let that which is in us suffice. All is for ever being weighed and judged in our soul. It is we who shall judge ourselves; or rather, our happiness is our judge.

Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest desire were watching our every action?

Language realizes, by breaking the silence, what the silence wished and did not obtain.

The subject is not so much the intelligent subject as the desiring subject.

The body as the power of empathy is already desire, libido, projection - introjection, identification. The esthesiological structure of the human body is thus a libidinal structure, the perception of a mode of desire, a relation of being and not of knowledge...What is the I of desire? It is obviously the body,

There is a mythical apace where directions and positions are determined by the placement of great affective entities...In the dream, as in the myth, we learn where the phenomenon is located by sensing what our desire moves toward, what strikes fear in our hearts, and upon what our life depends.

Those who resisted were neither madmen nor wise men; they were heroes—men in whom passion and reason were identical, who in the obscurity of desire did what history expected and what was later to appear as the truth of the moment. We cannot remove the element of reason in their choice any more than the element of audacity and risk of failure.

Psychoanalysis: either the last conquest of scientific and techinitionist ontology or the rediscovery of another contact with being: being that is neither for itself, nor being object, but the contradictory being of human desire.

Love entails a beyond oneself, the very beyond of the false desire of possession...At the mystery: how one can be non-self with all of one's strength.

There is in all expression a spontaneity which will not take orders, not even those which I would like to give to myself.

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

I'll eat you up I love you so.

There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

But the wild things cried, "Oh please don't go- We'll eat you up- we love you so!

She was a big blonde woman with more curves than the highway out front and just the right number of hills and valleys.

I don't think you've been in love. Not recently, anyway. I'm not sure you remember what it's like. It compromises you. It takes over your body. Like a bareword. I think love is a bareword.