Quotes About Desire

The boy came to believe that going west was more than just a fancy for someplace new. He came to see it as a part of his soul, a missing piece that could only be made whole on some far-off mountain or plain.

Falling in love is more than infatuation. It is the need to feel whole, to feel safe, to be healed, to join together with someone, heart and soul.

the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.

She looked over a shoulder, a gesture he would never get over, a moment fixed in his mind—the perfection of her skin, the music in her laughter; her eyes brown in places that brown could only dream of reaching. And he knew at that precise moment that he would always yearn for Belita, whether they spent their lives together or if they parted that evening and he never saw her again.

Women think they want a man but instead they want

If you discover a want that stirs your soul, then the Universe will figure out how to make it happen. Even though it may not seem feasible, you must have trust that the Universe will pull it off.

Nature had given me a square jaw, a cleft chin, a dark mane, eyes that could bring a vestal virgin to her knees and a cock that could keep her there.

What kind of a God makes bodies and forbids you to use them?

She exuded a raw, animal magnetism that left boys like me tongue-tied, and made men ignore their wives and crowd up close.

Girls are funny. If they fall for you, they do what they want—their mothers be damned.

Even that. What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?

And we die together." He smiled softly. "I would prefer that. I do not want to live in this world?or any other world, for that matter?without you.

Saracen The Knight: There will be a cost. Saint-Germain: Anything. I will pay anything to get my wife back. Saracen: Even your immortality? Saint-Germain: Even that. What's the point in living forever, when it is not with the woman I love?

I've seen this happen before. Elder flesh works wonders on their systems, making them huge. And once they get a taste for Elder flesh, nothing else will satisfy them. It's probably after me now." Then, when the creature ignored him, he added, "Or not . . .

What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?

And yet suddenly, terribly, he wanted it again, the way it used to be, arms linked together, all drunk and singing beautifully into the night, with visions of death from the afternoon and dreams of death in the coming dawn, the night filled with a monstrous and temporary glittering joy, fat moments, thick seconds dropping like warm rain, jewel after jewel.

word 'dream' in the English language, or its equivalent in other languages, is probably one of the most familiar words in our vocabulary. It tends to have a variety of uses, such as, visionary, as in the above quotation, or wishful, as in hoping to win a lottery or to meet a soul mate or to have a successful career. Such dreams would fall into a category of waking or conscious experiences (mostly!), but the most common form of dreams,

We are more willing to invest in defending what is already ours than we are to take what is someone else's, because the motivation to avoid losing what we already have is greater than the motivation of gaining what we don't yet have.

Forget about weak or strong, aggressive or passive. There are no passive characters, there are no weak ones. There is winning and there is losing, but every actor must fight for something he wants and needs. If you are concerned about getting what you need, then you will never let preconceived judgments get in your way.

do we not all aspire after that which conducts us to the grave—

Thus were they most anxious for that which was to prove their destruction:—yet do we not all aspire after that which conducts us to the grave—after the enjoyment of life? These innocents stretched out their arms to approaching death, because it assumed the mask of pleasure;

Der ideale Ort ist immer da, wo ich gerade bin. Ich spüre kein mich aufzehrendes Verlangen, Indien zu bereisen. Auch in die Mongolei gehe ich nicht, da wird einem nur das Pferd gestohlen.

George Bernard Shaw once said, "Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.