Quotes About Desire

Satan can only tempt you with what you already have.

Life, he muses, always gives you an excuse to take what you want anyway.

Giorgio cannot leave a bottle undrunk or an attractive woman unfucked, and those activities tend to get in the way of revolution.

prefer married women and expensive whores. You have a nice meal, a few laughs, a good fuck, and then you each go back to your own lives. It's better that way." So

You're a big boy," Ana observes, staring blankly into her cup. "You could have said no." "I stand with Oscar Wilde on the subject of temptation.

Then he drinks, eats, and fucks.

When you want to catch a fish, you gotta give it the bait it's hungry for.

Luis hopes for heaven. Keller fears hell. Vera fears only death, and that because he takes such pleasure in life.

Satán solo puede tentarte con lo que ya tienes.

He prays at the altar of dead false gods. Tries to hold up an image of what he thinks used to be but in fact didn't exist except maybe in the movies. The fuckin' guy wants so bad to be something that never was, even the ghost image of which is now fading into black.

He wishes Marie were here, that's all. No one who hasn't missed a beloved spouse will ever know the literal meaning of the word "heartache

Everything I like will kill me

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.

We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as thought about pancakes.

I hope that you will be faced with difficult choices and decisions, trials that won't undo you, but that will drive you toward reflection and understanding. Trust that your fears will sometimes tell you about your desires. You will see that you can survive the terror that comes with growth and change, with vulnerability and risk.

Have you ever noticed?--people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters.

Readers of symbols are forever at the mercy of desire.

Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons.

And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.

y la paz se convirtió en algo desagradable para unos hombres a quienes la guerra había satisfecho durante largo tiempo las necesidades vitales.

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

A (catch) net (is) no good unless the person to be caught (wants) to be caught.

God desires that all children be committed to the love and care of a mother and a father.

We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.