Quotes About Desire

They want to live , Alex. They want the life they were cheated out of. So if they see an open door . . . or an open mind . . . some of them come in never intending to leave.

Every man wishes to be king. Her hair snapped about her, buzzing.

I realized that it was not that I didn't want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn't know why I wanted to go on

It is true that I had wanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting having been born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad to have been born, grateful for life, and I couldn't imagine not wanting to pass on life to someone else.

Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.

Often, people want both to live and to die; ambivalence saturates the suicidal act.

Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet one that feels psychological in the experience of it; an illness that is unique in conferring advantage and pleasure, yet one that brings in its wake almost unendurable

It was like going on an archaeological dig through earlier ages of one's mind. There was a bill from a taxidermist in The Plains, Virginia, for example, for a stuffed fox that I for some reason had felt I desperately needed.

The elemental human desire to add meaning and permanence to life-to avoid the fate rendered by Dante as no more memorial/ Than foam in water or smoke upon the wind - take on additional depth and urgency for those who have intense moods and brooding dispositions.

Cocaine, hashish, opium, Ecstacy: all seduce with the promise of rapture or exuberance-and then they collect.

Action creates/a taste/for itself.

It was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex.

Who knows what will come when quick-tongued men make ancient grievances rhyme with fresh desire for land and conquest?

All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky.

But however hard I tried, I believe now there would have remained something beyond my reach.

That was one reason why we always thought so much about being in the window. Each of us had been promised our turn, and each of us longed for it to come.

Because whatever the song was really about, in my head, when I was dancing, I had my own version. You see, I imagined it was about this woman who'd been told she couldn't have babies. But then she'd had one, and she was so pleased, and she was holding it ever so tightly to her breast, really afraid something might separate them, and she's going baby, baby, never let me go.

little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone with our fears and longings

we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts.

I for one will never doubt that a desire to see 'justice in this world' lay at the heart of all his actions.

Tommy, you don't seem very pleased for me," I said, though in an obviously jokey voice. "I am pleased for you, Kath. It's just that, well, I wish I'd found it." Then he did a small laugh and went on: "Back then, when you lost it, I used to think about it, in my head, what it would be like, if I found it and brought it to you. What you'd say, your face, all of that.

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No creo que sea necesariamente malo. Una vez que encuentres a alguien, Kath, al alguien con quien realmente quieras estar, entonces será estupendo.

it was indeed 'as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there'.