Quotes About Desire

Most of us can manage no more than a narrow little obsession with a particular human who we mistakenly imagine can satisfy our gargantuan yearning for the real, primordial thing.

My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself.

I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.

Everybody lies about sex.

I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.

The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger.

Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.

Anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly.

I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.

Ben, why should anybody want that much power? Why does a moth fly toward light?

No one ever does anything but what he wants to do—'enjoys'—within the possibilities open to him. If I change a tire, it's because I enjoy it more than being stranded.

Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives—but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can insure that I will catch it.

I never do anything I don't want to. Nor does anyone, but in my case I know it.

Captain, that's not your style; you don't want to make money, you simply want to have money—in order to spend it.

Anything which is physically possible can be made financially possible, if the people of a state desire it.

He did not expect reasonable conduct from human beings; he considered most people fit candidates for protective restraint and wet packs. He simply wished heartily that they would leave him alone!—all but the few he chose for playmates. He was firmly convinced that, left to himself, he would have long since achieved nirvana . . . dived into his own belly button and disappeared from view, like those Hindu jokers. Why couldn't they leave a man alone?

It's a shock to have it proved to you that you can't resist seducing yourself.

Duke, almost the only human characteristic Mike seems to possess is an overwhelming desire to be liked.

I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do . . . and I never get a chance to do what I want to do!" "Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow. Which is right now.

Little Brother...precious darling...little imp with lively legs and lovely lewd lascivious lecherous licentious libido...beautiful bumps and pert posterior...with soft voice and gentle hands. My baby darling.

I miss you dreadfully!

Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws—always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.

I grok people now, Jill . . . Little Brother . . . precious darling . . . little imp with lively legs and lovely lewd lascivious lecherous licentious libido . . . beautiful bumps and pert posterior . . . soft voice and gentle hands. My baby darling." "Why

Can Penny come in?"  "Oh, sure! But you can tell her that she is wasting her time; the answer is still 'No.' "  So I changed my mind. Confound it, why should an argument seem so much more logical when underlined with a whiff of Jungle Lust?