Quotes About Desire

The mind that turns ever outward Will have no end to craving. Only the mind turned inward Will find a still-point of peace.

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

To that daintiest siren of puff and perfume, a Turkish cigarette.

Em persegueixo més ençà dels sentits perquè hi ha sempre algun íntim espai de mi que em manca.

Cap temps no es perd, i al pou del sentiment l'aigua sempre es renova i vivifica la necessària set, el gran batec amb què el desig posa a prova la vida.

Força sovint el repte és el silenci, l'espai incert que va de vers a vers, de pregunta a pregunta. Potser el que marca el ritme és el desig, però el desig tan aviat sotmet com allibera, i mai no concedeix treves al sentiment o a l'esperança.

Pur en l'oblit, i encès, i solitari, que tot se'm faci pedra de desig, arbre de llum, refugi de silenci.

Without our dreams, we are nothing

Live the dream, Potato.

Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.

I could not make a move without making love.

Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful, except for nothing. Only winners will know what this feels like. Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be.

We don't have intercourse anymore. I'm not complaining, it's my own fault. I lie there beside him and try to send signals to my vagina, but it's like trying to get cable channels on a Tv that doesn't have cable. My mind requests sex, but my vagina is just waiting for the next time it has to pee. It thinks its whole job in life is to pee.

If I could quietly kill her without anyone knowing, I would.

He stood right in front of me and pinched my arm and said, Can I see your room? Such relief. Even the pinch was good. I understood completely about needing to hurt someone at the same time that you are giving them something.

I would always be earthbound; he hadn't robbed me of my ability to fly or to live forever. I appreciated nuns now, not the conscripted kind, but modern women who chose it. If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be.

I decided, right there in the darkness of the hallway, that I wanted this.

We had loved people we really shouldn't have loved and then married other people in order to forget our impossible loves, or we had called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

It was like a dream, where the most unlikely person can't get enough of you- a movie star or someone's husband. How can this be? But the attraction is mutual and undeniable; it is the reason for itself.

It must happen all the time, a fleeting passion overwhelms someone's true course and there's nothing to be done about it.

Tom looked across the patio, our eyes met, and for a split second I remembered my drunken nineteen-year-old face pressed against his chest at a party, his lips resting on the top of my head, murmuring, You know I wish I could.

Always running and always wanting to go back but always being farther and farther away until finally it was just a scene in a movie where a girl says hello into the cauldron of the world and you are just a woman watching the movie with her husband on the couch and his legs are across your lap and you have to go to the bathroom.

I always had to resist the urge to go to him like a wife, as if we'd already been a couple for a hundred thousand lifetimes. Caveman and cavewoman. King and queen. Nuns