Quotes About Desire

an irrational and overpowering attraction

But what of romance then?" I asked, slightly indignant. "What of love?

The desire for knowledge shapes a man," he said.

To my patient fans, for reading the blog and telling me what they really want is an excellent book, even if it takes a little longer.

So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it.

Though I didn't know it at the time, I was looking for the name of the wind.

Isn't that the way of the world? we want the sweet things but we need the unpleasant ones".

I do not hope that this will be the one, for hoping is a foolish game.

It seems to me a person needs something to be happy about, and I don't have any such thing.

Ma koliko ti nešto delovalo privla?no, moraš da odvagaš kolikoj se opasnosti izlažeš. Koliko silno to želiš i koliko si spreman da se ope?eš. Marten

met him like a lover in an empty bed. The

When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it." Hespe

He would be able to create a scent that was not merely human, but super human, an angels scent, so indescribably good and vital that who ever smelt it would be enchanted and with his whole heart would have to love him.

And even knowing that to possess that scent he must pay the terrible price of losing it again, the very possession and the loss seemed to him more desirable than a prosaic renunciation of both. For he had renounced things all his life. But never once had he possessed and lost.

He had used only a drop of his perfume for his performance in Grasse. There was enough left to enslave the whole world. If he wanted, he could be feted in Paris, not by tens of thousands, but by hundreds of thousands of people; or could walk out to Versailles and have the King kiss his feet; write the Pope a perfumed letter and reveal himself as the new Messiah; be anointed in Notre-Dame as Supreme Emperor before kings, or even as God come to earth.

Man's misfortune stems from the fact that he does not want to stay in the room where he belongs.

He no longer yearned for his life in the cave. He had experienced that life once and it had proved unlivable. Just as had his other experience - life among human beings. He was suffocated by both worlds. He no longer wanted to live at all.

He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely as ever a rake had lived in the wide world outside.

The odour of humans is always a fleshly odour – that is, a sinful odour.

He had no use for sensual gratification, unless that gratification consisted of pure, incorporeal odors.

For Grenouille, this simplicity seemed a deliverance.

What he coveted was the odor of certain human beings: that is, those rare humans who inspire love. These were his victims.

El olor de mar le gustaba tanto, que deseaba respirarlo puro algún día y en grandes cantidades, a fin de embriagarse de él.

El objetivo de sus cacerías era poseer todo cuanto el mundo le pudiera ofrecer … y la única condición que ponía era que fuesen nuevos.