Quotes About Desire

The philosophy of Schopenhauer does not necessarily exclude God. It just does not include Him. God would be the goal of the will therein and the only nourishment that would satisfy it.

Life" has so obviously become the highest goal of the modern world that whoever lives for something else — even if it's eating — arouses our sympathy.

In its desire to gain the upper hand over democratic humanitarianism, modern Catholicism summarizes the two great commandments of the Gospel thus: You shall love your neighbor above all things.

The fact that nothing in this world fulfills us does not prevent us from longing for a world that is less ignoble and less ugly. In a well-tended garden the soul observes with nobler tranquility the initial onslaught of winter.

Es genügt, daß die Schönheit unseren Überdruß streift, damit unser Herz wie Seide zwischen den Händen des Lebens zerreißt.

Power more surely corrupts the man who covets it than the man who exercises it.

Reason, truth, justice, tend not to be man's goals, but the names he gives to his goals.

and they would imprint upon each other's lips such a long and languishing kiss, that a little straw cigar might have been smoked during the time it lasted.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Love, as it exists in society, is nothing but the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

Don't you know that we must always have a place where we never go but where we think we'd be happy if we did?

It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.

L'amour, tel qu'il existe dans la Société, n'est que l'échange de deux fantaisies et le contact de deux épidermes.

I'll get pretty much everything the way I want it. I've always dreamed of a beach wedding.

cela m'excite de penser à tout ce qui fuit dans la vie au nom de la vie.

opening and closing the pages of a celestial dictionary at will and always falling upon the words hair fur and sex until a bunch of distant images arise at the same time as June when she kneels in front of me her tongue making little cross-strokes in my full-moon fur my enchanted-lake fur we should do it again so that I too can stroke through June's fur.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby.

I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.

My mother dyed my hair red since I was four because I loved Anne of Green Gables and wanted red hair. Not many people know this but my natural hair color is light strawberry blonde. Got my hair from my grandmother's side of the family.

Justin Michaels! He's sort of adorable. And hunky. And mysterious, in a hunky, adorable kind of way.

Did you ever want something so deeply you were scared to let yourself have it? Like a desire so great you know you will never forgive yourself if you fail. So you hang back. And then you wake up one day and you realize if you don't do it now, it will move out of reach forever.