Quotes About Desire

Let them look upon virtue and pine because they have lost her.

I think of Torg as a friend, a brother. My desire to punch Val in the head is more like a hobby.

we are qualified for Christian service by our praying not our preaching, by our desire to worship him and not our workload on his behalf, by knowing Jesus personally and not just by knowing a lot of interesting things about him. If you lose God's presence you lose everything, but if you know his presence you already have everything you will ever need.

So I'm waiting for God, and God is waiting for me to see if I am really waiting for him, and not just wanting things from him.

Put salt in our mouths that we may thirst for you.' Amen. (Prayer of St Augustine)

Augustine once said that God puts salt on our lips that we may thirst for him. Sometimes it's the salt of our tears.

For a long time, I was in love with her in that diffuse, ambiguous, and obsessive way that can never be explained to strangers.

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

Enjoy life. And be careful what you pray for - remember, you will get it all.

And so each man wants and works, almost automatically, for the approval of his people.

Being rich, really rich, meant you could go completely crazy, and the only result would be everyone getting so jealous they couldn't stand it.

And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.

It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?

A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.

There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.

C'mon, Tinker," he said. "Janis really wants to fuck Bruce.

Singing wordlessly over the song's (and the album's) final moments, Bruce evokes the opening bars of "Something in the Night," and the chill cloaking the entire album: the creeping suspicion that the things that make you feel the most alive will turn out to be some combination of unobtainable, worthless, and self-destructive.

Gold we've got, humping we want – debauch! debauch!

To fantasies', he said. 'Tell me about yours.' His eyes were a bright, liquid blue, and his lips were parted in a half smile.

Ellen Brody: Wanna get drunk and fool around? Brody: Oh Yeah.

I'd wade through slaughter ... To drink your bathwater.

Balzac clearly is haunted by these Faustian figures, who seek to go beyond what is permitted to ordinary humans, only to reach an impasse where their very medium of expression is blocked or destroyed.

if you don't desire anything, the world is without appeal, it loses its beauty. You lack for everything, yet nothing now triggers the need to devour, to incorporate, to make the beautiful object one's own. If the self 's relation to the external world no longer is subtended by desire, it loses all meaning. Raphaël's life is a kind of vegetation, a life without movement or meaning.