Quotes About Desire

What was acrophobia anyway, if not the half-acknowledged desire to jump?

She runs the entire meal down the garbage disposal and goes hungry, a hunger more wonderful than any meal.

We're shaped to think the things we want will make us happy. But shaped to take only the briefest thrill in getting. Wanting is what having wants to recover.

But the need for justice is like ownership or love. Feeding it only makes it grow.

Every one imagines that fear and anger, violence and desire, rage laced with the surprise capacity to forgive—character—is all that matters in the end.

Love, as all the good novels know, is a question of title, deed, and possession.

addicted to a rate of stimulations per second that she hasn't entirely kicked.

They form in front of him: his friend, his wife, his daughter. People who loved him, who believed he'd do good things. In the mild April mist, he thinks: All I ever wanted was to make one slight noise that might delight you all. How small a thought it took. How small a thought.

L'amore è un ciclo di feedback dal desiderio alla condivisione, alla perdita. Un moto anti-hebbiano: le attivazioni si fanno sempre più fiacche. (p.243)

the beautiful redwood trim paid for by millions of people's desire to live anywhere else but here.

Study your hunger and how to feed it. Trust in whatever sounds twist your viscera.

The light switch teases her from across the foyer.

1. Human history was the story of increasingly disoriented hunger.

And Nick was gone, reeled out on a leash long enough to reach the Chicago Loop, with the freedom to test all the flaws inherent in his own desire.

He decides, for whatever years are left to him, to capture the tree and see what the thing looks like, sped up to the rate of human desire.

The Holy Spirit is God desiring in you and through you—until it becomes your desiring too.

The reason we do anything one more time is because the last time did not really satisfy us deeply. As English poet W.H. Auden put it in "Apropos of Many Things": "We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die.

A heaven you created by yourself will never be heaven for long.

I further believe that a free and loving God would create things that continue to recreate themselves, exactly as all parents desire for their children.

God can help you get what you want, which is still a self-centered desire, instead of God's much better role—which is to help you know what you really desire (Luke 11:13; Matthew 7:11).

What we all desire and need from one another, of course, is that life energy called eros! It always draws, creates, and connects things.

want to propose that we are both sent and drawn by the same Force, which is precisely what Christians mean when they say the Cosmic Christ is both alpha and omega. We are both driven and called forward by a kind of deep homesickness, it seems. There is an inherent and desirous dissatisfaction that both sends and draws us forward, and it comes from our original and radical union with God. What appears to be past and future is in fact the same home, the same call, and the same God

Fullness in a person cannot permit love because there are no openings, no handles, no give-and-take, and no deep hunger.

God does not come uninvited. God and grace cannot enter without an opening from our side, or we would be mere robots. God does not want robots, but lovers who freely choose to love in return for love. And toward that supreme end, God seems quite willing to wait, cajole, and entice.