Quotes About Desire

as much as I'd like to lick chocolate syrup off your body, I want you to shut up.

I looked at her, and thought that she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. "Can I shoot him later?" She smiled again, and this time patted my hand. "We'll see." Something to live for.

Sleep was like sex. The less you had, the more you craved it

I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, & am content.

Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat & stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame crimson, and I am content......Conan the Cimmerian.

How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound?

One thing I've learned in a very long life, Mr. Crews, is that there's never enough.

Thinking of it, and doing it… they're not the same.

People want to believe.

Has confundido la necesidad con el amor?".

We ran as if to meet the moon.

The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired.

Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire.

Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

Start with a big fat lump in your throat. Start with a profound sense of wrong, a deep homesickness, a crazy lovesickness, and run with it. If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve. Do what you love. And don't stop until you get what you love.

From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire.

Unos dicen que el mundo sucumbirá en el fuego. Otros que en el hielo. Por lo que yo he probado del deseo, estoy a favor de los que apuestan por el fuego. Pero si por dos veces el mundo pereciera, creo saber suficiente sobre el odio, como para saber que para la destrucción, el hielo también es grande y sería suficiente.

We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I'm not sure why it must be so, but it is.

Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally amounts to being free from things we don't like in order to be enslaved by things we approve of. Here's to the eternal tandem.

Now Everybody has some secret goals in life...Sometimes you can get what you want and what you need at the sames time.

There is too little mystery in the world; too many people say exactly what they feel or want.

Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As children, we wanted to monopolize the attention of a parent, to draw it away from other siblings. This sense of rivalry... makes people compete for the attention.