Quotes About Desire

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he — for some reason — thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

Everybody must have a fantasy.

You won't be happy with more until you're happy with what you've got.

Doré mi sol así las olas y la espuma que en tu cuerpo canta, canta -más por tus senos que por tu garganta- do re mi sol la si la sol la si la.

To be the object of desire is to be defined in the passive case. To exist in the passive case is to die in the passive case – that is, to be killed. This is the moral of the fairy tale about the perfect woman.

And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs. My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders; I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

She was feeling supernatural tonight. She wanted to EAT diamonds.

I shall take two huge handfuls of his rustling hair as he lies half dreaming, half waking, and wind them into ropes, very softly, so he will not wake up, and, softly, with hands as gentle as rain, I shall strangle him with them.

When I'd first loved him, I wanted to take him apart, as a child dismembers a clockwork toy, to comprehend the inscrutable mechanics of its interior." -flesh and the mirror

Curiosity is the most fleeting of pleasures; the moment is satisfied, it ceases to exist and it always proves very, very expensive.

Perhaps...I could not be content with mere contentment!

I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me.

His skin covers me entirely; we are like two halves of a seed, enclosed in the same integument. I should like to grow enormously small, so that you could swallow me, like those queens in fairy tales who conceive when they swallow a grain of corn or a sesame seed. Then I could lodge inside your body and you would bear me.

She was no malleable, since frigid, substance upon which desires might be executed; she was not a true prostitute for she was the object on which men prostituted themselves.

And I could believe that it has been the same with him; he was alive from the desire of the woods.

The touch of her hand filled me with a wild loneliness.

Indeed, pornography is basically propaganda for fucking, an activity, one would have thought, that did not need much advertising in itself, because most people want to do it as soon as they know how.

It would mean that the castle is not yet generating enough eroto-energy.