Quotes About Desire

Lovers are made by a kiss.

In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.

Women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

alles wäre sauber und still, leer und kinderlärmfrei gewesen. Aber willst du mit vierzig, mit fünfzig noch so leben? hat Simon gefragt, und ich habe nichts geantwortet. Ja, vielleicht will ich.

The paper is finished, the pen is finished, and we are finished, But, the fable of desire, is still not finished.

I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted.

There was sex, of course. Nakedness. Wall to wall, in and out of my thoughts. But when it was over it was her whispering voice I craved, and a human curled up in my arms.

And so it was that the two of us, out of a shared and confused hatred, performed an act that looked like love, but while our bodies sought each other and came together we were both thinking and speaking of him all the time, of nothing but him.

It is usual for a woman, even though she may ardently desire to give herself to a man, to feign reluctance, to simulate alarm or indignation. She must be brought to consent by urgent pleading, by lies, adjurations, and promises. I know that only professional prostitutes are accustomed to answer such an invitation with a perfectly frank assent -- prostitutes, or simple-minded, immature girls.

No hay cosa más insoportable que pasar toda una vida obsesionada por un solo punto, por un solo día de existencia

Desire and love act at cross purposes. love is a net cast on eternity, desire is a stratagem to be spared the chores of net weaving. True to their nature, love would strive to perpetuate the desire. Desire, on the other hand, would shun love's shackles.

It is not in craving after ready-made, complete and finished things that love finds its meaning -- but in the urge to participate in the becoming of such things.

And the enticement to seek a rose without thorns is never far away and always difficult to resist.

El deseo destruye su objeto, destruyéndose a sí mismo en el proceso;

Al explorar el mercado en busca de artículos de consumo, son atraídos a los comercios con la promesa de que allí encontrarán las herramientas y materias primas que pueden (y deben) usar para volverse "aptos para el consumo", y por lo tanto cotizar en el mercado.

El anhelo reemplaza al deseo como fuerza motivadora del consumo.

Y por eso es imposible aprender a amar, tal como no se puede aprender a morir. Y nadie puede aprender el elusivo —el inexistente aunque intensamente deseado— arte de no caer en sus garras, de mantenerse fuera de su alcance. Cuando llegue el momento, el amor y la muerte caerán sobre nosotros, a pesar de que no tenemos ni un indicio de cuándo llegará ese momento.

Cuando la relación está inspirada por las ganas ("las miradas se encuentran a través de una habitación atestada"), sigue la pauta del consumo y sólo requiere la destreza de un consumidor promedio, moderadamente experimentado. Al igual que otros productos, la relación es para consumo inmediato (no requiere una preparación adicional ni prolongada) y para uso único, "sin perjuicios". Primordial y fundamentalmente, es descartable.

el amor es el anhelo de querer y preservar el objeto querido.

Si el deseo ansía consumir, el amor ansía poseer. En cuanto la satisfacción del deseo es colindante con la aniquilación de su objeto, el amor crece con sus adquisiciones y se satisface con su durabilidad. Si el deseo es

Añora la unidad y hace de todo ser humano alguien incompleto y deficiente a menos que se una a otro, por más realizado y autosuficiente que sea en otros aspectos.

El amor y el ansia de poder son gemelos siameses: ninguno de los dos podría sobrevivir a la separación. Si el deseo ansía consumir, el amor ansía poseer. En cuanto la satisfacción del deseo es colindante con la aniquilación de su objeto, el amor crece con sus adquisiciones y se satisface con su durabilidad. Si el deseo es autodestructivo, el amor se autoperpetúa.