Quotes About Desire

uma nuvem preta solitária à procura de chuva.

With an ache, Karras stared at the bowed and defenseless head. He yearned to be able to take Chris's hand and assure her that all would be well. But he couldn't. He didn't believe it.

much for tea time and pleasantries. Who are you? What is it that you want from us? To suffer like you did on the cross? Well, we're doing it.

Ambivalence is simultaneously wanting and not wanting something, or wanting both of two incompatible things. It has been human nature since the dawn of time.

I'm so miserable without you, it's almost like you're here.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound variables. ("America: Three Audiences")

You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.

The face of "evil" is always the face of total need.

Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon, And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.

Who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite?

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Wishers were ever fools

But when they seldom come, they wished for come.

If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wished for come.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Love is a spirit all compact of fire

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

And then to breakfast withWhat appetite you have.

Affection! thy intention stabs the center:Thou dost make possible things not so held,Communicat'st with dreams.