Quotes About Desire

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

He drunkenly recognized that the lust was part of something bigger, of a craving to pursue pleasure unreasonably, beyond the right and wrong, to go as far as his body took him. In the body there is no absolute, or free, will, but the body is determined to desire this or that by a cause that is also determined by another, and this again by another, and so on to infinity.

At worst, she kept him around so he could make her feel better when she needed it, a winning combination of a pet and a dildo.

He who recollects a thing by which he was once pleased desires to possess it in the same circumstances as when he first was pleased by it. He who was never pleased is doomed to an eternal hard-on.

Still, it was fair to say that the minimum requirement for a truly enjoyable existence would be unbridled promiscuity.

No one can desire to be blessed, to act well and to live well, unless at the same time he desires to be, to act, and to live, that is, to actually exist.

lovingly. "I enjoy being with you" was her preferred mode of expressing her affection. At worst, she kept him around so he could make her feel better when she needed it, a winning combination of a pet and a dildo.

He who recollects a thing by which he was once pleased desires to possess it in the same circumstances as when he first was pleased by it.

Men confide, lust rhetorically, copulate hypothetically with women of unacknowledged fantasy.

was. He wasn't so much jealous as he wanted Kimiko to confess that she experienced lust independent of him—the thought of her sovereign lechery turned him on, because it frightened him.

The sad fact of life was that there were no cruising spots for heterosexual men. If there were, Joshua would be parked somewhere every day of his life, willing to sleep with any woman generous enough to pull up alongside him.

Minut može biti isto što i ceo život, ako se doživi usredsre?eno, ako se gleda pažljivo kako promi?u ku?e i prolaznici, ako se zna da se u?inilo ono što se želelo.

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

A strong desire derives a person straight through the hardest rock.

The fire of love is drawn from the sky rather than the human mind.

The love goes where it wants; you hear it rustling but you do not know where it's going and where it goes.

Jupiter promises us infallible happiness, fortune, a thousand blessings, and a brave son. Isn't this what everybody wants?

The unconscious desire is not the content of the hidden message, it is the active designer of the form that latent thoughts get in a dream. This is why the key in psychoanalysis is not a key to a hidden meaning, but the key that "unlocks" this form itself (makes what has been associated to compose the hidden meaning dissociate). And this is what "the right word" does.

There is no natural need that is absolutely pure, that is to say, devoid of this surplus element which splits it from within. Drive can neither be completely separated from biological, organic needs and functions (since it originates within their realm, it starts off by inhabiting them), nor simply reduced to them.

Antigone emerges as a figure of pure desire precisely because, with her words and actions, she incites in others this tenacious question: What does she want? She states what she wants from the outset, yet there is no one in the play who is not baffled at one point or another by this question: OK, she wants to bury Polyneices, but what does she actually want?

It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live.

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.

È uno strano dolore. Piano. - Morire di nostalgia per qualcosa che non vivrai mai.

To die of yearning for something you will never experience