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Quotes About Desire

Hide me inside you, where the sweetest things are hidden, between the roots of roses and spices
~ A.C. Swinburne
There's this to say of love and breath -- They give a man a taste for death.
~ A.E. Houseman
When the lad for longing sighs, Mute and dull of cheer and pale, If at death's own door he lies, Maiden, you can heal his ail. Lovers' ills are all to buy: The wan look, the hollow tone, The hung head, the sunken eye, You can have them for your own. Buy them, buy them: eve and morn Lovers' ills are all to sell. Then you can lie down forlorn; But the lover will be well.
~ A.E. Housman
Oh tarnish late on Wenlock Edge, Gold that I never see; Lie long high snowdrifts in the hedge That will not shower on me.
~ A.E. Housman
Iniquity it is; but pass the can. My lad, no pair of kings our mothers bore; Our only portion is the estate of man: We want the moon, but we shall get no more. (Last Poems, IX)
~ A.E. Housman
The stars have not dealt me the worst they could do: My pleasures are plenty, my troubles are two. But oh, my two troubles they reave me of rest, The brains in my head and the heart in my breast. Oh, grant me the ease that is granted so free, The birthright of multitudes, give it to me, That relish their victuals and rest on their bed With flint in the bosom and guts in the head.
~ A.E. Housman
Oh fair enough are sky and plain, But I know fairer far: Those are as beautiful again That in the water are; The pools and rivers wash so clean The trees and clouds and air, The like on earth was never seen, And oh that I were there. These are the thoughts I often think As I stand gazing down In act upon the cressy brink To strip and dive and drown; But in the golden-sanded brooks And azure meres I spy A silly lad that longs and looks And wishes he were I.
~ A.E. Housman
Aléjate, si puedes. Volverás con el hambre a flor de piel.
~ A.E. Samaan
The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism.
~ A.E. Samaan
Tu afán traiciona tu pátina de sombría paciencia. Tu deseo se despliega con una suave caricia.
~ A.E. Samaan
Tu mirada traiciona la voluntad de tu corazón.
~ A.E. Samaan
Turn away, if you can. Return you will with hunger peaked and primed.
~ A.E. Samaan
Your eagerness betrays your patina of somber patience. Your desire unfolds with but a gentle touch.
~ A.E. Samaan
Content," Guildenstern agreed. "One aspires to happiness, but not too much since one would not wish to be disappointed.
~ A.J. Hartley
Aunque sus gustos eran sencillos, se trataba de esa sencillez que solamente se satisface a base de cosas buenas.
~ A.J.A. Symons
Rappelez-vous que ce qu'on appelle une faible volonté est habituellement un signe de manque d'intérêt. La personne faible qui est facilement persuadée de jouer au tennis quand elle n'en a aucun désir est une personne qui n'a aucune idée de ce qui l'intéresse réellement. Un système disciplinaire encourage une telle personne à rester faible de volonté et futile. (p. 432)
~ A.S. Neill
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
~ Dr. Seuss
A?k sözcü?ü yerini, anlam?n? dumura u?ratt?. S?radan bir sözcük gibi yerini her ?eye açt?. Tanr? gibi varolup da var olam?yor art?k. Hem a?k?n varl??? da çok su götürür. Gerçekte a?k yoktur: Var k?lmak istiyoruz. Bu hakk?m?z da. Ba?ka bir ?eyimiz yok çünkü.
~ İlhan Berk
Travelling in one direction. Yearning to be going the other way. She has lived here. She will survive there.
~ Ã…sa Larsson
love is nothing but a desire and an enjoyment,it is mortal.
~ Éliphas Lévi
Todos los males del alma humana provienen del temor y del deseo. Las amenazas y las promesas son los grandes medios de corromper y embrutecer a los hombres. El dogma que anuncia el privilegio y que amenaza con un castigo exorbitante, monstruoso y sin fin a las multitudes ignorantes no es ni divino, ni humano, ni razonable, ni civilizador
~ Éliphas Lévi
C'est toujours l'imagination qui l'emporte sur la volonté, sans aucune exception. - It is always the imagination that wins over the will, without exception.
~ Émile Coué
Happiness, they say, can't be ordered like a steak in a restaurant. Like love, its very essence is freedom. This is true. But like love, happiness can be wooed and won.
~ Émile Coué
From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
~ Émile Durkheim