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Quotes About Desire

My friends are appeased to stay in Odessa for their entire lives. They are appeased to age like their parents, and become parents like their parents. They do not desire anything more than everything they have known. OK, but this is not for me, and it will not be for Little Igor.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
It felt as if an only life should be better than good enough, but how many efforts for more have ended with having nothing?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I said, not knowing what the next words out of my mouth would be, but wanting them to be mine, wanting, more than I'd ever wanted anything, to express the center of me to and be understood.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I felt suddenly shy.     I was not used to shy.     I was used to shame.     Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.     Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Dat is de tragiek van de liefde: je houdt van niets zoveel als van dat wat je mist.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Love me, because love does not exist, and I tried everything.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
faces pressed against the pane, full of little, content with sawdust tears.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
He was sculpting me. He was trying to make me so he could fall in love with me ..
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Hiçbir ÅŸeyi özlediÄŸin bir ÅŸeyden daha fazla sevemezsin.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I thought about packing my bags, I thought about jumping out a window, I sat on the bed and thought, I thought about you. What kind of food did you life, what was your favorite song, who was the first girl you kissed, and where, and how, I'm running out of room, I want an infinitely long blank book and forever.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
In other words, if everyone wants to play Hamlet all at once, they couldn't because there aren't enough skulls.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I would give everything never to think about her again, I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Maybe it's true that you can use up all of your tears...It was nice to think about, because what I wanted was to be empty.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Allora il mio papà merita di stare nell'archivio' 'Cosa ti fa pensare che sia un bene starci?' 'Pechè vuol dire che uno è biograficamente significativo' 'E perché, questo è un bene?' 'Io voglio essere significativo.' 'Nove persone significative su dieci hanno a che fare coi soldi o con la guerra
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all of the lives I'm not living.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
E' la tragedia di amare, non si può amare niente più di quello che ci manca.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Shy is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.     Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Maybe we're just missing things we've lost, or hoping for what we want to come.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn't, because there aren't enough skulls!
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
It's better to lose than never to have had. I lost something I never had. You had everything.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer