Quotes About Desire

Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation

The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God.

Tutto è energia e questo è tutto quello che esiste. Sintonizzati alla frequenza della realtà che desideri e non potrai fare a meno di ottenere quella realtà. Non c'è altra via. Questa non è Filosofia, questa è Fisica.

This kind of search in the dark, with its tense desire, lasting for years, full of foreboding, with it's exhausting change form aspiration to frustration and it's final breakthrough to lucidity, all of this you only know properly if you experienced it.

Como me gustaría comerme una buena verga

Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.

Paolo and Francesca were not ideal readers since they confess to Dante that after the first kiss they read no more. Ideal readers would have kissed and then read on.

The more one gets the more one wants

Pero parece que cuanto más se recibe más se quiere...

Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont .

I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin.

The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.

Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.

I don't want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin.

To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.

One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I have said, a principal appetite of the soul.

Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. He was not worthy, not... Their eyes for a moment met. What treasures hers promised! A queen's ransom of temperament. Hastily he looked away, disengaged his imprisoned arm. He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.

But chastity means passion, chastity means neurasthenia. And passion and neurasthenia mean instability. And instability means the end of civilization. You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.

Grief doesn't kill, love doesn't kill; but time kills everything, kills desire, kills sorrow, kills in the end the mind that feels them; wrinkels and softens the body while it still lives, tots it like a medlar, kills it too at last.