Quotes About Desire

I don't want the void. I don't want fantasies. I want some- thing real—not another fragment of truth to puzzle over . . . .

Some things take hold of you. Invade you. Own you. You want to be free of them, but you never will be.

Rdx enim omnium malrum est cupidits. (I Timothy 6.10: rdx, rdcis, f., root; source, origin; "radical," "radish.")

The basic problem with the desire of Jewish Christians to maintain Torah observance was, according to Paul, not that it engendered "works righteousness" but rather that it fractured the unity of the community in Christ.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

I'm here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I'm trapped here, but because I'd rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.

No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.

Love is a fake!" Olson was blaring. "There are three great truths in the world and they are a good meal, a good screw, and a good shit, and that's all!

Next, go back to the first bad image. Not the life-size one but the little one and push it off into the distance and suddenly pull up the new picture in its place and then make it life-size. Look at how you want to be, and you end up replacing your fears with your desires.

This will instruct your neurology which direction to go in. There is a tendency for some people to look at the past over and over again. Even in therapy, people going through it over and over again instruct the neurology that this is what they want. Until you start to look ahead with desire, it's very hard to get away from the past. The more you look at the bad things, the more you relive the bad things, the more familiar it gets.

They portray not just figure anyone could imagine or desire, but the Christ of the Gospels as he seemed most closely to connect with believers in that time and place.

Hypocrisy is a proud desire to appear better than you are. Be thoroughly humbled and vile in your own eyes, and hypocrisy is done.

Thou I cannot so freely say, My heart is with thee, my soul longeth after thee ; yet can I say, I long for such a longing heart (648).

As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).

Desire a thousand times more to be godly, than to seem so.

God has made the desire of our own happiness so necessary to the soul of man, that it cannot be separated from our desire to please him. Therefore, both in respect to God, and to our own happiness, "we must believe that he is the everlasting Rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

The Beautiful Poem" I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking about you. Pissing a few moments ago I looked down at my penis affectionately. Knowing it has been inside you twice today makes me feel beautiful.

the sweet juices of your mouth are like castles bathed in honey. i've never had it done so gently before. you have put a circle of castles around my penis and you swirl them like sunlight on the wings of birds.

Not one of us gets all of the understanding we want, and few get as much as we need.

However, though belief on faith alone may be comforting, it is wholly arbitrary and thus does nothing to ensure that you are more correct than anyone else. So it cannot properly be described as knowledge, but rather as a mere wish, a desire that something be true or false, or else it is a naive trust in guesswork or hearsay.

Her ambition was an extremely distressing condition. She sought power the way a superstitious man might look for a four-leaf clover.

Whoe'er she be,That not impossible sheThat shall command my heart and me.

All those fair and flagrant things.

O thou undaunted daughter of desires!