Quotes About Desire

and yes even loved him even though logic and reason told me I had no business feeling that way about him but I didn't care, no I loved him, and wanted him to know it not because I expected him to reciprocate )and yes even loved him even though logic and reason told me I had no business feeling that way about him but I didn't care, no I(even though I really really wanted him to) but because if someone ever loved me in that pure way I would want to know about it

Whaddaya want?" growled Viola, our small, surly, octogenarian waitress. What did I want? A job. A clue. A love. "Two coffees," Len answered for me. Coffee would do for now, I guess.

So where should we go at it?' asked Bastian. 'Anywhere you want me,' I murmured, dreamily. 'Pardon?' 'Anywhere,' I said. 'Why don't we start in a familiar place, so we are not nervous our first time?' I have to remind myself that this is real, and not part of the daydream. He's talking about the Storytelling Project. Not sex.

And for the first time all summer, The Mall was exactly where I wanted to be.

You, yes, you, linger inside my heart The same you who stopped us before we could start I didn't want to leave, but you began to believe Your own crocodile lies.

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

All I wanted to do was lie in the dry grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know you're halfway to Methana.

If the desire to have children is just a way to build some noisy tribe of distraction around oneself, then I'd rather be alone.

She didn't really want to have a baby; she wanted to want to have a baby.

Every now and then I'd squint my eyes to visualize a time when I'd start feeling the craving myself: when I was thirty, it would be at thirty-two; at thirty-two, I'd be ready by thirty-six; and on it went.

wrestling with a curiosity about country living that seemed strangely akin to a homophobic person "struggling with same-sex attraction." As much as I wanted to be a creature of the city, as much as I'd organized my entire life around the overpriced, undersized vagaries of Manhattan living, I sometimes found myself wanting desperately to live on a farm, or at least near one.

This was a time in my life when I was so filled with longing for so many things that were so far out of reach that at least once a day I thought my heart would implode from the sheer force of unrequited desire. By desire I am not referring to apartments I wanted to occupy or furniture I wanted to buy or even people I was attracted to (well, I'm referring to those things a little) but, rather, a sensation I can only describe as the ache of not being there yet.

or furniture I wanted to buy or even people I was attracted to (well, I'm referring to those things a little) but, rather, a sensation I can only describe as the ache of not being there

People need to feel that they have been thwarted by circumstances from pursuing the life which, had they led it, they would not have wanted;

But to me, the lack of desire to have a child is innate. It exists outside of my control. It is simply who I am and I can take neither credit nor blame for all that it may or may not signify. But the decision to honor that desire, to find a way to be whole on my own terms even if it means facing the judgment, scorn, and even pity of mainstream society, is a victory. It's a victory I celebrate every day.

I don't really want to have a baby; I want to want to have a baby." I longed to feel like everybody else, but I had to face the fact that I did not.

Tolstoy said about Ivan Ilyich: "What he longed for was impossible, but still he longed for it.

All we do in our lifetime is to scream in different ways to get attention in this dark universe!

Boat is nothing without water and man without his dreams!

Despite the boredom of the infinity, we want life not shorter than the eternity!

Do the things you want to do; if you don't, the things which keep you alive inside you die and you turn into a ghost!

Every time a strong wind blows, every sand and dust yearns for being a solid rock and every solid rock longs for flying with the wind!

For a hungry man, green peas are more shiny than gleaming pearls.

For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually.