Quotes About Desire

When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.

Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.

To think this wonderful girl wanted to come to her house! Minx felt as if there were wings wafting her along.

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

Me dieron ganas de cogerle la mano o el brazo mientras él miraba toda esa belleza babeando, como un pobre chucho flaco ante un hueso súper jugoso pero fuera de su alcance, y decirle bajito: Volveremos... Te prometo que volveremos... ¡Levanta la cabeza, Franck! Te prometo que algún día volveremos... Y nos quedaremos para siempre...

Ich hatte Lust auf eine Zigarette. Es war bescheuert, ich hatte vor Jahren aufgehört zu rauchen.Tja,aber so ist das Leben. Da beweist du eine fabelhafte Willenskraft, um dann eines Wintermorgens zu beschließen, daß du vier Kilometer durch die Kälte laufen willst, um eine Schachtel Zigaretten zu kaufen...

Quand je bois, je bois trop, quand je fume, je me bousille, quand j'aime, je perds la raison et quand je travaille, je me tue...Je ne sais rien faire normalement sereinement, je... - Et quand tu détestes? - Ça je sais pas... - Je croyais que tu me détestais, moi? - Pas encore, sourit-elle, pas encore...Tu verras quand ça arrivera...Tu verras la différence...

Le but, c'est que tu deviennes accro à mon picotin. Que tous les matins tu te lèves en te demandant ce qu'il y aura au menu.

Ta?u esmu egoists, tur tev taisn?ba. Es tev saku, ka nev?los, lai tu aizej, t?p?c, ka nev?los, lai tu aizej. Es dom?ju par sevi. Tu man esi tuv?ka nek? paša meita.

How could you let yourself be sidetracked while I was waiting for your breath on my back?

Je ressemble à un personnage de Bretécher: une fille assise sur un banc avec une pancarte autour du cou : "je veux de l'amour" et des larmes qui jaillissent comme deux fontaines de chaque côté des yeux. Je m'y vois.

Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part

There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.

In other words, (cultural) exchange is about teasing out points of conflict, among other things. (Cultural) Appropriation suggests a significant amount of self-satisfaction and a desire to show off.

Even a painful longing is some form of presence. from "A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook," trans. Clare Cavanagh, Poetry (1 May 2012)

Prawie wszystkie ludzkie nieszcz??cia bior? si? st?d, ?e cz?owiek chce mie? drugiego na w?asno?? i na zawsze.

I am glad something happened to give you what you wanted.

Oh the hunger in his stare!

she had come to him when he was no longer there…because he had not found the young man with the scarred cheek he could not come to her through the glass.

All I wanted then was for everything to go on as before, so that I could stay deeply asleep, and be no more than a hole in space, not here or anywhere at all, for as long as possible, preferably forever.

But he had held her hand, he had looked into her face in the dark hall, and a strange ecstatic entrancement had come over her, as though she would like to stand there forever, just feeling her hand in his. The extraordinary comfort that filled her heart because of that contact with another human being! She knew that she must feel it again, that, like a drug-taker, she would never be satisfied until she had repeated that unique and trance-like sensation.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Cora ci stava mettendo gli spaghetti nel piatto, e lui disse « basta » dopo due forchettate. Non mangiava molto, come tutti gli ambiziosi. Sapeva che il mangiare addormenta.