Quotes About Desire

Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.

Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.

I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Thought: why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Il sesso è sporco solo se fatto bene.

Here on the West Coast a soda jerk, willing to choose between a chick and a Thunderbird, can have the Thunderbird.

This is California. You can't have everything.

To have anything we want, we need only raise our level of consciousness to the level of consciousness where what we want exists.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Weep for the lives your wishes never led.

Early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Trying their wings once more in hopeless flight: Blind moths against the wires of window screens. Anything. Anything for a fix of light. X. J. Kennedy, "Street Moths," The Lords of Misrule

La intensidad de una pasión se mide por la soledad que la precede.

I don't know much about kisses, but I can assure you that hers were no less fierce than a swarm of bullets tearing the air

Me voy a los extremos todo el tiempo. A veces te maldigo tanto que hasta rezo para que te vaya mal. "Virgen Santísima, que le amputen un brazo a ese Hijo de la Chingada". Y otras estoy rezando para que me llames y me saques de aquí y nos vayamos a cualquier pinche nowhere a volvernos una feliz pareja de nobodies. Pero el resto del tiempo trato de no pensar en nada. más que en mí.

No se mucho de besos, pero yo le aseguro que los suyos no eran menos feroces que un enjambre de balas despedazando el aire

Men would sooner fuck trash than read it.

Honor appears to me to be an object of great importance, since men submit to every kind of labor, and undergo every sort of danger, with the desire of attaining it.

There is a deep—and usually frustrated—desire in the heart of everyone to act with benevolence rather than selfishness, and one fine instance of generosity can inspire dozens more.

As a person, therefore, would have no enjoyment of drinking, if he had not previously known thirst, so he who is unacquainted with the longings of love has no experience of the most ravishing pleasures.

The pleasures of love, then ... seem to be the only objects that can excite in you the desire of reigning; for in this respect it is in your power to attach yourselves to whatever object you find eminently beautiful.

The more dishes a man has on his table beyond what is sufficient, the sooner satiety in eating comes upon him.