Quotes About Desire

People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

While dissatisfaction implies either rejection or frustrated pursuit of satisfaction, unsatisfaction is something more like acceptance combined with anticipation. It is acknowledgement of desire without the demand that it be satisfied--a kind of openness that doesn't ask for closure. It is desire that can live with deferral, an embrace of the God-shaped vacuum in us and a commitment to stop trying to make it full, a healthy hunger that is content to wait for the feast.

Well, the heart always holds out hope that the mind knows may not likely be met.

I tried not to love you," she said, "but it didn't work." He pulled her toward him, held her face. "I feel lucky," he said.

the thing about Steven is, everyone wants him to fill the hole we have in our lives.

She wanted to be his more than she wanted him to be faithful.

Her desire for him had been so great that she had been willing to accept a kind of lumpy half-love, flawed, temporal, and incomplete.

Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.

Isn't that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You are choosing what you want. And you are also choosing what somebody else does not want, and all the consequences that follow. You can tell yourself, That's not my problem, but those words do not wash the trouble away. Maybe it is no longer a problem in your life. But it is always a problem in your heart.

If women didn't throw themselves at men's heads, the human race would not proceed.

Wealth and beauty-whatever dangers they brought, one never wished them away.

I was sure that if I got my hand in between the hard muscles of his butt cheeks, he'd grip it so tight I wouldn't be able to get it out again and I'd pobably have to cut it off at the wrist.

He wants to see the child, because that child will bring about the consolation that he seeks; he may not want to see the child, because once he has that encounter, he will die.

Rents remind me of the meat which the hungry and no hungry love .

When a person falls in love, he enters in emergencies

Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.

Se es de donde se quiere ser, y se pertenece a quienes se desea pertenecer... Lo mismo al revés.

Contraviniendo consejos abrí el balcón de la sala, solo para oler la cercanía del bosque. Para mi nunca seria peligroso. Pese a las advertencias recibidas, el bosque seguia siendo en mi imaginación y en mis sentimientos el único mundo habitable.

Quizá la nostalgia sea un deseo; o el resplandor de un tiempo en el que creíamos ser felices.

Alicia en el mundo del espejo", pensé, más de una vez, contemplándome en él, desnuda y desolada con un gran deseo de atravesar su superficie, que parecía gelatinosa. Tristísima imagen aquella -la mía-, de ojos asustados, que era, tal vez, la imagen misma de la soledad.

No me detendré jamás, mientras me quede vida —se decía, contemplando aquella vasta tierra despoblada y espantosamente solitaria—, hasta que ni un palmo de tierra quede oculta a mis ojos y hollada por mi pie.» «Sólo se sabía prisionero de aquel íntimo deseo, de aquel sueño, de aquella fiebre de la que nadie hacía partícipe. Pues esta sed era mayor que todas las sedes, y esta hambre, mayor que hambre alguna.

Si te marchas, haré un muñeco de cera, con tu rostro, con tu cuerpo, y le clavaré alfileres negros, todas las noches, todas las noches. [...] Nunca vivirás en paz. Nunca vivirás en paz. Llenaré de alfileres tu corazón...

Sólo se sabía prisionero de aquel íntimo deseo, de aquel sueño, de aquella fiebre de la que nadie hacía partícipe. Pues esta sed era mayor que todas las sedes, y esta hambre, mayor que hambre alguna.

Poco después, llegó el día de la Primera Comunión. Fue un día muy agitado. Me vistieron de blanco, con un velo también blanco. Me habían dicho que tenía que pedir por todo el mundo, pero nadie me decía qué es lo que tenía que pedir para todo el mundo. Así que pedí para mí, y pedí un caballo vivo. Nunca me lo trajeron.