Quotes About Desire

He picked her up and tossed her on the bed. They had a hell of a time. But afterward, after she had gone back to her own room, depression came to him and what had seemed like such a hell of a time became distasteful, even a little disgusting. It was the depression of surfeit, the tail of selfindulgence's kit. You flew high, wide, and handsome, imposing on the breeze that might have wafted you along indefinitely; and then it was gone, and down, down, down you went.

What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man to himself. Only in God will he find the truth and happiness he never stops searching for" (CCC 27).

When it comes to books, I am a sensuous woman.

Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void.

You know you're not in your twenties anymore when you flee the action instead of wanting to be in the middle of it.

So now I was wine-less and new-book-less, which for me is a grievous state of affairs.

I understand that he wishes even more than I do that he still loved me.

Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.

I haven't forgotten one second of how good it felt to hold you, but I wasn't the one who pulled away. You don't want me to be more, do you? I just keep pushing against your walls, and to tell you the truth, baby, my hands are starting to bleed. do you want me gone for good? Look at me, tell me to leave you alone, and I will. I swear I'll get in my truck, drive off, and never bother you again." --Tommy to Shea

Fuck me, Gray. Make me forget my own name." He couldn't speak for her, but he certainly forgot his.

Grayson James, on the other hand,could give me a tongue-lashing of a different sort. A very welcome one.

I touch the fuzzy letter I. The pins he's earned for varsity and captain. This is what we care about. How many pins we have. We want to be MVPs. The most valuable of all. What's so wrong with that? It's stupid, Beth would say. That's what's wrong with it.

Being left alone - and I am being left alone - isn't quite as much what I wanted as I thought. Is this how people become evil? I don't want to be.

You don't want anything from them except for them to exist and you to see them sometimes and talk to them, and maybe for them to like you back.

What do you want to be, free or happy? How about if they really are mutually exclusive options? What is freedom anyway? How does humanity govern itself when each person can have anything they want? How does humanity govern itself when nothing is natural?

What I want is much more complicated. I want somebody I can talk to about books, who would be my friend, and why couldn't we have sex as well if we wanted to? (And used contraception.)

Trees are what paper was, and wants to be.

Maybe some of the masters really believed they could make it work, but I think what they really wanted wasn't to do it themselves but for somebody else to have made it real and for them to have been born there.

I'm only fifteen. I'm not sure I ever want to get married. I'm neither messing around while waiting nor looking for some "real thing". What I want is much more complicated. I want somebody to talk about books, who would be my friend, and why couldn't we have sex as well if we wanted to? (And used contraception.) I'm not looking for romance. Lord Peter and Harriet would seem a pretty good model to me. I wonder if Wim has read Sayers?

I want to run so much sometimes my body aches with longing more than the pain from my leg.

Io vorrei decifrare le cose che sono importanti. E quel che sto raccontando non è una vita di uomo del sertão, sia pure jagunço, ma la materia che ne vien fuori. Vorrei capire a fondo la paura e il coraggio, e la voglia che spinge la gente a compiere tanti atti, a dare corpo al succedere. Quel che induce la gente a cattive azioni strane, è che uno si trova vicino a quel che è suo, di diritto, e non lo sa, non lo sa, non lo sa!

Ah, il fiore dell'amore ha molti nomi