Quotes About Desire

Ya tengo un objetivo, una finalidad en esta vida —se decía—, y es conquistar a esta muchacha o que ella me conquiste. Y es lo mismo. En amor lo mismo da vencer que ser vencido.

Comprar yo su cuerpo... su cuerpo...! ¡Si me sobra el mío, Orfeo, me sobra el mío! Lo que yo necesito es alma, alma, alma

La envidia es mil veces más temible que el hambre porque es hambre espiritual.

Pues decía que cuando uno se casa, si lo hace enamorado de veras, al principio no puede tocar el cuerpo de su mujer sin emberrenchinarse y encenderse en deseo carnal, pero que pasa tiempo, se acostumbra, y llega un día en que lo mismo le es tocar con la mano al muslo desnudo de su mujer que al propio muslo suyo; pero también entonces, si tuvieran que cortarle a su mujer el muslo, le dolería como si le cortasen el propio.

La envidia es mil veces más terrible que el hambre, porque es hambre espiritual.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

And the secret of human life, the universal secret, the root secret from which all other secrets spring, is the longing for more life, the furious and insatiable desire to be everything else without ever ceasing to be ourselves, to take possession of the entire universe without letting the universe take possession of us and absorb us; it is the desire to be someone else without ceasing to be myself, and continue being myself at the same time I am someone else...

Para el que no tiene nada, la política es una tentación comprensible, porque es una manera de vivir con bastante facilidad

Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.

Tenho medo que a liberdade se torne um vício

This paradox of rising expectations suggests that improving the quality of life might be an insurmountable task. In fact, there is no inherent problem in our desire to escalate our goals, as long as we enjoy the struggle along the way. The problem arises when people are so fixated on what they want to achieve that they cease to derive pleasure from the present. When that happens, they forfeit their chance of contentment.

The problem arises when people are so fixated on what they want to achieve that they cease to derive pleasure from the present.

When do we get to the interesting part—the tortured souls, the impossible dreams, the agony and the ecstasy of creation?

what drove me on to be my own boss was that the thing that I wanted most was to be able to have a nap every day

Before investing great amounts of energy in a goal, it pays to raise the fundamental questions: Is this something I really want to do? Is it something I enjoy doing? Am I likely to enjoy it in the foreseeable future? Is the price that I—and others—will have to pay worth it? Will I be able to live with myself if I accomplish it?

As many a thinker since Aristotle has said, everything we do is ultimately aimed at experiencing happiness. We don't really want wealth, or health, or fame as such-we want these things because we hope that they will make us happy. But happiness we seek not because it will get us something else, but for its own sake.

the universe was not created to answer our needs. Frustration is deeply woven into the fabric of life. And whenever some of our needs are temporarily met, we immediately start wishing for more.

We often call the manifestation of intentionality by other names, such as instinct, need, drive, or desire.

And, finally, the last step will be to describe how people manage to join all experience into a meaningful pattern (chapter 10). When that is accomplished, and a person feels in control of life and feels that it makes sense, there is nothing left to desire.

Practically every desire that has become part of human nature, from sexuality to aggression, from a longing for security to a receptivity to change, has been exploited as a source of social control by politicians, churches, corporations, and advertisers.

thoroughly socialized person is one who desires only the rewards that others around him have agreed he should long for—

This paradox of rising expectations suggests that improving the quality of life might be an insurmountable task. In fact, there is no inherent problem in our desire to escalate our goals, as long as we enjoy the struggle along the way. The

The other danger in becoming involved with culinary delights—and here again the parallels with sex are obvious—is that they can become addictive. It

What love is to the heart, appetite is to the stomach. The stomach is the conductor that leads and livens up the great orchestra of our emotions.