Quotes About Desire

Practice the Three Breakthrough Actions: • Let go of your non-love feelings. • Hold in mind what you want. • Be positive and loving in spite of whatever happens.

Lovers are never equally matched - do you think? One always overshadows the other and stunts his or her growth so that the overshadowed one must always be tormented by a desire to escape, to be free to grow. Surely this is the only tragic thing about love?

She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if not palatable at lest understandable. I realize now the time I wasted in this way; instead of enjoying her and turning aside from these preoccupations with the thought, 'She is untrustworthy as she is beautiful. She takes love as plants do water, lightly, thoughtlessly.

I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes in which one's glances sink because they are nervous, curious, turned to sexual curiosity.

I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!

People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.

Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul

the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors... For from here love degenerates into habit, possession, and back to loneliness.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

And I saw her as a sad thirtieth child of Valentine that fell, not as Lucifer rebelling against God, but because she too passionately wanted to be united with him! All things in excess become sin.

First you have to know and understand intellectually what you want to do - then you have to sleepwalk a little to reach it.

There is never enough light." To which I responded without thought: "For women perhaps. We men are less exigent.

Cuesta mucho luchar contra el deseo del corazón; todo lo que quiere obtener, lo compra al precio del alma.

One always falls in love with the love-choice of the person one loves.

Its women shall be the voluptuaries not of pleasure but of pain, doomed to hunt for what they least dare to find.

Loving is so much truer when sympathy, not desire, makes the match; for it leaves no wounds.

If you think of yourself as a sleeping city for example… what? You can sit quiet and hear the processes going on, going about their business; volition, desire, will, cognition, passion, conation.

Every variety of the name of flesh, old flesh quailing upon aged bones, or the unquenched flesh of boys and women on limbs infirm with the desires that could be represented in effigy but not be slaked except in mime — for they were desires engendered in the forests of the mind, belonging not to themselves but to remote ancestors speaking through them. Lust belongs to the egg and its seat is below the level of psyche.

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living. Perhaps if I could die or go mad it would provide a focus for all the feelings I have which find no proper outlet.

Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.

Never shall my sad eyes again behold Those pleasures which my thoughts did then unfold.

The ocean doesn't want me today, But I'll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard's away But the ocean doesn't want me today

I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.

Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.