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Quotes About Desire

Sadness of feeling the need to create beautiful things;
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
She was unhappy, although unconvinced that her unhappiness wouldn't be someone else's happiness. She felt unfulfilled desire—profound amounts of it—but presumably so did every other married and unmarried person. She wanted more, but didn't know if there was more to be found. Not knowing used to feel inspiring. It felt like faith. Now it felt agnostic. Like not knowing.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
There's a Hasidic proverb: 'While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Two friends are ordering lunch. One says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' and orders it. The other says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' but remembers that there are things more important to him than what he is in the mood for at any given moment, and orders something else. Who is the sentimentalist?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Persiguiendo la felicidad nos alejamos de la satisfacción
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Reduce what you have. Decrease what you want.
~ Jonathan Star
Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
~ Jonathan Swift
In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.
~ Jonathan Swift
and the first words I learnt, were to express my desire "that he would please give me my liberty;" which I every day repeated on my knees. His
~ Jonathan Swift
the thirst I had of seeing the world, notwithstanding my past misfortunes, continuing as violent as ever.
~ Jonathan Swift
nunca acreditávamos ter muito dinheiro e que, quanto mais tínhamos, mais queríamos ter;
~ Jonathan Swift
Herkes uzun yaÅŸamak ister ama kimse yaÅŸlanmak istemez.
~ Jonathan Swift
I had lusted after Donald— after his time, his attention, his presence—because I felt I had a right to. I saw what a consuming, fiery passion lust can be. It was a desire that I did not want to deny myself. In the end, I lost everything that I sought to selfishly control.
~ Joni Eareckson
Suffering is having what you do not want, and wanting what you do not have. However, suffering is minimized when we equalize our desires to fit our circumstances. Subtract our wants, and we will be closer to contentment.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
To hunger is to be human, but to hunger for God is to feed on Him. Hunger and thirst after His righteousness and feed on Him in your heart. Taste and see that the Lord is good; it is He who will fill you to satisfaction.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.
~ Joni Mitchell
I could drink a case of you, darlin'...and I would still be on my feet, yes I would still be on my feet...
~ Joni Mitchell
Oh you're in my blood like holy wine You taste so bitter and so sweet Oh I could drink a case of you darling And I would still be on my feet Oh I would still be on my feet
~ Joni Mitchell
Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.
~ Jorge Amado
Para que explicar? Nada desejo explicar. Explicar é limitar. É impossível limitar Gabriela, dissecar sua alma.
~ Jorge Amado
Ai, nunca mais seus lábios, sua língua, nunca mais sua ardida boca de cebola crua!
~ Jorge Amado
El verdadero amor no es otra cosa que el deseo inevitable de ayudar al otro para que sea quien es. - Jorge Bucay
~ Jorge Bucay
Las personas creen que aman pero en realidad están enganchadas en su necesidad de poseer a otro. Como si dijeran: "Te amo mientras estés al lado mío, pero si te vas seguramente te odiaré".
~ Jorge Bucay