Quotes About Desire

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get.

para la mayoría cualquier relación sexual es todavía un milagro, un regalo

Tenía esa irritación que no se controla, cuando se deja de querer a alguien y ese alguien nos sigue queriendo a toda costa y no se rinde, quisiéramos que todo acabara siempre cuando lo damos por concluido.

Y cuando uno espera demasiado, se le acaba creando un sentimiento ambivalente o contradictorio: descubre que se ha acostumbrado a esperar y que tal vez no quiera otra cosa.

Passara anos a duvidar se eu estava morto e a desejar que estivesse vivo, e o seu desejo vira-se recompensado. Agora, pelo contrário, segundo me parecia, não queria saber se eu permanecia na terra ou se saía disparado dela. Tinha sido em vida, aquando do meu regresso, que deixara de existir. Não se prescinde de um fantasma, pois nunca está cumprido; de um marido desnecessário, derrotado, ensimesmado e sombrio, sim.

Querer es una costumbre

le dice «Te quiero», pero se aborrece por ello. Es un amor malsano, que sólo puede traer la desgracia.

Anita se debate entre el asco que siente hacia sí misma y el placer sin nombre de un amor que le parece un crimen.

Creo que la única obligación que tiene el hombre en esta tierra es realizar sus sueños.

Entusiasmo significa «rapto divino». De en-theos, estar con Theos, con lo sagrado. Conectar con el impulso creador. Dejarse arrastrar por la fuerza de lo que se desea contar.

Así son las cosas, nos pasamos toda la vida buscando algo y cuando por fin lo tenemos al alcance de la mano, nos asaltan las dudas y no sabemos qué hacer.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Schopenhauer says, 'a man can do what he will, but not will as he will.

would have preferred to do was charge

Aristotle himself said that to get someone to take an action you need to build desire.

Seduction is manipulation, manipulation is half of argument, and therefore many of us shy from it. But seduction offers more than just consensual sex. It can bring you consensus. Even Aristotle, that logical old soul, believed in the curative powers of seduction. Logic alone will rarely get people to do anything. They have to desire the act. You may not like seduction's manipulative aspects; still, it beats fighting, which is what we usually mistake for an argument.

Is it a manly game," he asked, for while men are ruled by their loins, those loins have two small brains each no larger than an olive and thus do not think well.

For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesn't cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a distinctly 'unnatural' way, so that the mind clings less and lets go more.

For the Buddha of the Pali Canon, the goal is liberation: the cessation of suffering, the end of the endless hamster-wheel of dependent origination, of mental formations leading to desire leading to clinging leading to suffering and so on. Nibbana, or nirvana, was not originally conceived as some magical heavenly world, or even a permanent altered state of consciousness. It is usually described, in the early texts, negatively: as a candle being snuffed out.