Quotes About Desire

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

Mais c'est faire un pacte avec le diable, car il perd son âme, celui qui veut être religieusement aimé. Elles m'ont obligé à feindre la méchanceté, je ne leur pardonnerai jamais ! Mais que faire ? J'avais besoin d'elles, si belles quand elles dorment, besoin de leurs adorables gestes de pédéraste, besoin de leurs pudeurs, si vite suivies d'étonnantes docilités dans la pénombre des nuits, car rien ne les surprend ni ne les effraie qui soit service d'amour.

Femelle, je te traiterai en femelle, et c'est bassement que je te séduirai, comme tu le mérites et comme tu le veux. A notre prochaine rencontre, et ce sera bientôt, en deux heures je te séduirai par les moyens qui leur plaisent à toutes, les sales, sales moyens, et tu tomberas en grand imbécile amour, et ainsi vengerai-je les vieux et les laids, et tous les naïfs qui ne savent pas vous séduire, et tu partiras avec moi, extasiée et les yeux frits !

Como eu gostaria de poder tirar fora, como o desdentado que tira a dentadura para depositá-la num copo d'água junto ao leito, tirar meu cérebro para fora de sua caixa, tirar meu coração que bate demais, esse pobre infeliz que cumpre bem demais seu dever, tirar fora meu cérebro e meu coração para mergulhá-los, esses dois pobres milionários, em soluções refrescantes, enquanto eu dormisse como um menininho que nunca mais voltarei a ser.

Mais qu'avons-nous tous, pauvres humains, à vouloir nous serrer contre un autre corps ?

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Assume that most times when you feel anxious, depressed, or angry you are not only strongly desiring but also commanding that something go well and that you get what you want. Cherchez le should, cherchez le must! Look for your should, look for your must! Don't give up until you find it. If you have trouble finding it, seek the help of a friend, relative, or REBT therapist who will help you find it. Persist!

The doubt sensation, also called the yearning sensation, the longing sensation, allows the mind to become more and more aroused without its resting on anything, to the point where pure awareness without content, reflection or desire can spring forth in a burst of light, an explosion of pure being.

Darius Madden had more money than he needed and almost as much money as he wanted.

Ferris was infected with the most virulent form of that weird malady as "dog-showitis." At first he had been tempted solely by the hope of winning the hundred-dollar prize. But latterly the urge of victory had gotten into his blood. And he yearned, too, to let the world see what a marvelous dog was his.

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live

I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.

Ich bin Leben, das leben will, inmitten von Leben, das leben will.

No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light.

For the commission to do a great building, I would have sold my soul like Faust. Now I had found my Mephistopheles. He seemed no less engaging than Goethe's.

Como Fausto, teria vendido a minha alma para fazer um grande edifício. Agora encontrara o meu Mefistófeles. Não me pareceu menos envolvente do que o de Goethe.

Me confesarás que un amor correspondido tiene mil veces más fuerzas para aferrares al corazón que el que vive de suspiros y sin esperanza -Rafael san Luis

No es mejor apagar en un amor fácil la sed del alma, que devora la tranquilidad del espíritu?

Ai de ti e de todos que levam a vida A querer inventar a máquina de fazer felicidade!