Quotes About Desire

What is the arc of the plot of one's life? I want! I want!

I wished for you to be born a daughter though we know that daughters cannot but be born for burning like the fatal tree.

We all have our particular preferences. Mine is gentle sex, the kind in which a man takes forever before he touches you down there. But most people are so guilty about sex that they want the crime and the punishment built in.

Era come se lo stomaco pensasse di essere il cuore. E non importava quanto lo riempissi... di uomini, di libri, di cibo, di biscotti allo zenzero a forma di uomo, di poesie a forma di uomo e di uomini a forma di poesie... rifiutava di calmarsi. Senza fondo... ecco com'era. Ninfomania del cervello. Denutrizione del cuore.

Young women dream of romance and passion as men dream of conquest because those dreams are necessary goads to leaving home and growing up.

She is the witch. You wish you were she. Except when the time comes for burning.

Maybe she will make our wishes come true before we burn her.

Les pensées sont des femmes, on les renifle, on les suit, on s'engrise et puis brusquement, le désir bifurque et l'on va voir ailleurs.

On aime toujours trop quand on aime vraiment. L'exces est de rigueur. ( Don Juan ) Votre Diablerie, vous ne pouvez dire cela. Tout est pour le pire dans le pire des mondes possibles. ( Le majordome dans L'Ecole du diable )

Ból jest po prostu pytaniem, ktore stawiam samemu sobie, ?eby zmierzy? siÅ'Ä™ swojego pragnienia: jeÅ›li cierpienie mnie powstrzymuje, oznacza to, ?e wÅ'aÅ›ciwie wcale nie zale?y mi na po??danej rzeczy. Gdy jednak okazuje siÄ™ ono jedynie drobnÄ… przeszkodÄ…, wiem, ?e moje pragnienie jest silne, gÅ'Ä™bokie. Ból jest poniekÄ…d barometrem moich chÄ™ci.

A chciaÅ'byÅ› ?y? wiecznie? - Nie w ten sposób! Sze??dziesiÄ…t czy siedemdziesiÄ…t lat czegoÅ› takiego zupeÅ'nie wystarczy. Ale gdybym byÅ' bogaty, tak. - Przecie? bogactwo doczesne jest niczym. - SÅ'owo bogacza.

Intimement, J'en ai le désir, presque le goût. Mourir plutôt qu'attendre la mort.

Je ne veux pas triompher, je veux vivre.

În clipa aceea, el dobândi dou? certitudini definitive: o dorea profund pe acea femeie ÅŸi, dac? va putea, n-o va p?r?si niciodat?.

En amour, on appelle ça un étalon; en politique, un démagogue. Le secret de la réussite, c'est de ne penser qu'à la jouissance de l'autre.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows 'what he wants,' while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. In order to accept this it is necessary to realize that to know what one really wants is not comparatively easy, as most people think, but one of the most difficult problems any human being has to solve. It is a task we frantically try to avoid by accepting ready-made goals as though they were our own.

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

Greed?has no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Yet all this bespeaks a dim realization of the truth—the truth that modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. In order to accept this it is necessary to realize that to know what one really wants is not comparatively easy, as most people think, but one of the most difficult problems any human being has to solve. It is a task we frantically try to avoid by accepting ready-made goals as though they were our own.

Two persons thus fall in love when they feel they have found the best object available on the market, considering the limitations of their own exchange values.

The assumption that the problem of love is the problem of an object , not the problem of a faculty . People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by- is difficult.

Man seeks for drama and excitement; when he cannot get satisfaction on a higher level, he creates for himself the drama of destruction.

The attitude inherent in consumerism is that of swallowing the whole world. The consumer is the eternal suckling crying for the bottle.