Quotes About Desire

Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.

Somehow we are all seeking some appropriate burden. Until we find it we are horribly shackled, can in fact scarcely live.

A hermit always longs for visitors, said Loring,until they come, and then he wishes them gone.

Are we not all the same? Do we not all strive to simply have enough?

Sadness is a feeling of loss. There is something one wanted, and one doesn't have it—or there is a way one wanted things to be, and things aren't that way. That is sadness. Instead, you feel rootlessness.

We get offered so few real victories. It's a question I can't even really answer: what is the victory I want?

We are all doomed to seek our own happiness; we can't help ourselves. We are all, the cruel and the gentle alike, condemned to seeking that happiness in the dark. We use our need as the blind use a walking stick, to determine the safety of every forward step.

A BROKE MAN IS NOT A MAN WITHOUT A NICKLE, BUT A MAN WITHOUT A DREAM

I've heard it said that hope is like a blueprint. Hope is what faith uses to create what you want. Hope is more than wanting change or wishing for change. Hope prepares our heart to want to change, and to use our faith to make change happen.

Desire is the only justification for obedience.

In the most common fantasy of ideal love, [...], a woman can only unleash her desire in the hands of a man whom she imagines to be more powerful, who does not depend upon her for his strength. [...] The boundedness and limits within which one can surrender, and in which one can experience abandonment and creativity, are sought in the ideal lover. (p. 120)

I am a hopeless romantic.

Being human means yearning for more than subsistence. As much as food or shelter, we require hope.

But for them—as for anyone—survival isn't enough. So what began as a last-ditch effort has become a battle cry for something greater. Being human means yearning for more than subsistence. As much as food or shelter, we require hope.

In the coming years, he'd try to fill that void with whatever was at hand: debt, food, sex, religion.

I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.

You invade every thought I have even when they have nothing to do with you. I'm not just in love with you. I'm kind of obsessed.

But I really would love to give her a very special gift. I was hoping if I did, she might give me a kiss in return, instead of the brotherly hugs I always get instead.

Stupid kissing. Stupid roaming hands. Stupid boys.

copy: "I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Damn you!" he reviled her, "damn you for your physical charms!

The fact of the matter is that when there are feelings involved and you like someone, it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a receptionist - you can't really help it when you have feelings for someone.

The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.

Will is based on activity, whim on passivity.