Quotes About Desire

Las guerras ocurren por culpa del deseo. Porque no nos separamos del animal, porque no lo mantenemos a raya, porque dejamos que nos ocupe todo el cuerpo y que nos vuelva animales...

Estar a su lado (que creo es, justamente, donde deseo estar) equivale a estar aún más solo.

Ambos quieren un pedazo de mí. Y mientras más quieren, menos les doy.

Uno puede hacer de todos los sitios el sitio que uno desea si uno se concentra.

L'innamoramento è una catastrofe esistenziale che ci coinvolge in maniera radicale anche se del tutto oscura.

the people--want to live in peace and to be loved for who they are, to fuck and be fucked. It means we are predestined by history to be the cuckolds of humanity...She betrayed us because we did not love her for who she is, without ulterior motives.

El, în definitiv, nu reuÈ™ea decât s? stârneasc? ilaritate: È™i nu È™tia s? fac? asta decât luând în batjocur? anumite lucruri. Iar aceste lucruri, din întâmplare, erau tocmai acelea pe care nu reuÈ™ise s? le aib? în via??.

mi innamorai nella sola maniera in cui sono capace di innamorarmi: lentissimamente, cominciando quasi con l'indifferenza e finendo con la passione.

Because the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he is forced, instead, to do what others wish him to do. Because the question of money always intrudes—into what we do, into what we are, into what we wish to become, into our work, into our highest aspirations, even into our relations with the people we love!

desire for normality; a longing to adapt to some recognized and general rule; a wish to be like everyone else, from the moment that being different meant being guilty.

Mr. Codro's destiny is Ptolemaic; in other words, based on fiction. Ptolemaic says it all; it means above all fixed and unchanging, that is to say different from real life which is by nature changing and temporary. It means: not according to natural truth, but according to man's desire and the pretense inspired by his fear of dying and his desire for permanence.

Del mismo modo que "el corazón tiene razones que la razón desconoce", la conciencia tiene razones que el corazón desconoce, y para ciertos seres humanos los dictados de su conciencia suelen estar por encima de los dictados de su corazón. Al fin y al cabo, con demasiada frecuencia los dictados del corazón no son más que los dictados del deseo recubiertos de un ligero barniz de romanticismo.

Toda protección de la vida salvaje está condenada al fracaso, porque para querer necesitamos ver y acariciar y cuando un número suficiente de gente haya visto y acariciado no quedará nada que querer.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provincialism.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

I am I, and I wish I weren't.

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.