Quotes About Desire

Have you ever noticed a certain type of man who always wants to go along with his wife to pick out her clothes? I've always thought that's because he wants to wear them himself. Truman Capote on Warhol

The danger of sending your children to college was that they would be contaminated by subversive forces, bad influences and bawdy women." Rolled with laughter. Parent's fear, college student's desire.

You didn't give up wanting things because your life had put them out of reach.

Her Lips Are Copper Wire" whisper of yellow globes gleaming on lamp posts that sway like bootleg licker drinkers in the fog and let your breath be moist against me like bright beads on yellow globes telephone the power-house that the main wires are insulate (her words play up and down dewy corridors of billboards) then with your tongue remove the tape and press your lips to mine till they are incandescent

Men had always wanted her, this Karintha, even as a child, Karintha carrying beauty, perfect as dusk when the sun goes down.

Making love in a mask . . . a real turn-on that would be.

To think that men and women had actually had sex together—had actually done things. Or, rather, men had done things. It was the men who did them, the women who had them done. Men who had the pleasure, women all the suffering.

Simply and plainly, April, because we need you. Is that not reason enough?

All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.

An ethics of desire is good news for those of us who have become allergic to an ethics of law.

I hate the moonlight because it's beautiful and he isn't here to see it with me.

One does not miss what one has never had.

One doesn't miss what one has never had; but it's awfully hard going without things after one has commenced thinking they are his/hers by natural right.

If you just want a thing hard enough and keep on trying, you do get it in the end.

Seseorang tidak akan merindukan apa yang tidak dia miliki, tapi sungguh sulit rasanya hidup tanpa benda-benda tertentu setelah dia terbiasa memilikinya.

I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.

You mustn't get me used to too many luxuries. One doesn't miss what one has never had; but it's awfully hard going without things after one has commenced thinking they are his.

Bossuet has a sentence which is beyond the comprehension of an apostle who does not realize what must be the soul of his apostolate. It runs: "When God desires a work to be wholly from His hand, he reduces all to impotence and nothingness, and then He acts." Nothing wounds God so much as pride.

Hayat?ma girmi? kad?nlar." Bu m?sralar hep akl?n?n bir kö?esindeydi. Sanki av pe?inde ko?ma nedenini bile özetliyorlard?. Güzel bir çehreyi bir trende, kalabal?kta, bir sokakta gizlice izlemeye dayanan özel ve ebedi bir dramd?, ama ayn? zamanda da kad?nlar? ona do?ru çeken dayan?lmaz bir co?kuydu. Bu ilk kar??la?madaki hayranl?kt?. Ve gerçek bir k?v?lc?m. Sayfa:138

Au fond, ce que j'aimais, c'était ce secret, cette douleur. Et la honte. Cette espèce de... dégradation. Comme quand on picole, tu vois? On savoure chaque gorgée et en même temps, on sait qu'on est en train de se détruire, de tomber un peu plus bas à chaque verre.

Avec un naturel éprouvé, elle passa en quelques instants de l'émotion à la reconnaissance, de la reconnaissance à la tendresse, de la tendresse au désir.

Ce qui avait pris fin, au fond, c'était la redoutable contradiction dans laquelle elle s'était enfermée : n'aimer que pour être aimée, s'offrir mais pour acquérir celui qui vous reçoit, enchaîner l'autre dans le sacrifice qu'on prétend faire pour lui.

À ce moment-là, je crois, j'ai pris conscience qu'aucune existence, si heureuse ou brillante fût-elle, ne me suffirait jamais. Il vient toujours un moment où le rêveur, qui d'ordinaire se croit heureux parce que ses songes l'emportent sans cesse ailleurs, prend conscience de son malheur.

La beauté, à ce degré, sépare des autres mortels, suscitant leurs désirs et leur jalousie. Pour un qu'elle satisfera, elle fera quantité de victimes, qui transformeront la douleur de leur amour déçu en volonté dangereuse de vengeance.