Quotes About Desire

It's human to want what we need, and it's human to desire what we don't need but find desirable.

M-au încercat mari ambiÅ£ii ÅŸi am avut visuri nem?surate,dar tot aÅŸa au ÅŸi b?iatul de comisioane sau cus?toreasa,fiind vorba de visuri pe care ÅŸi le face toat? lumea:ne deosebeÅŸte doar forÅ£a de a le realiza sau norocul de a le vedea realizate.

I'm older than Time and Space, because I'm conscious. Things derive from me; the whole of Nature is the offspring of my sensations. I seek and I don't find. I want and can't have. Without me the sun rises and expires; without me the rain falls and the wind howls. It's not because of me that there are seasons, the twelve months, time's passage. Lord of the world in me which, like earthly lands, I can't take with me (...)

The truth is, though, that the things we love most, or think we love, only have their full value when we merely dream them.

RenunÅ£area e libertate.A nu râvni nimic este putere.

The only thing I've loved is nothing at all. The only thing I've desired is what I couldn't even imagine. All I asked of life is that it go on by without my feeling it. All I demanded of love is that it never stop being a distant dream.

Nothing satisfies me, nothing consoles me; everything that has been and that hasn't been jades me. I don't want to have my soul and don't want to renounce it. I want what I don't want and renounce what I don't have. I can't be nothing nor be everything: I'm the bridge between what I don't have and what I don't want.

Acabaram-de de arder, meu amor, na lareira da nossa vida, as achas dos nossos sonhos... Desenganemo-nos da esperança, porque trai, do amor, porque cansa, da vida, porque farta e não sacia, e até da morte, porque traz mais do que se quer e menos do que se espera.

And there are many whose dullness and sameness of life is not what they wanted for their life, nor the result of not having wanted any life, but just a dulling of their own self-awareness, a spontaneous irony of the intellect.

I do not even abdicate from the banal gestures of life from which I so wish I could abdicate. Abdication takes effort, and I do not have enough soul to make that effort.

El principio de la ciencia es saber que ignoramos. El mundo, que es el lugar donde estamos; la carne, que es lo que somos; el Diablo, que es aquello que deseamos: los tres, en un Momento Culminante, mataron al maestro que íbamos a ser. Y aquel secreto que él guardaba, para que nos convirtiéramos en él, ese secreto se perdió.

I love you the way I love the sunset or the moonlight: I want the moment to remain, but all I want to possess in it is the sensation of possessing it.

Romantizm hastal??? budur iÅŸte: sanki sahip olman?n bir yolu varm?? gibi Ay'a göz dikmek.

Love is a mysticism that wants to be materialized, an impossibility that our dreams always insist must be possible.

Carta para no enviar La dispenso de comparecer en mi idea de usted. Su vida [...] Eso no es mi amor, sino su vida.   La amo como amo el crepúsculo o el reflejo de la luna, con el deseo de que el momento quede, pero sin que sea mío salvo en la sensación de haberlo vivido.

I want to tell you how the desire to achieve something far outstrips what we actually achieve. I want to recite to you the litany of despair while you listen intently. There is no work of art that could not have been more perfect. Read line by line, no poem, however great, has no single line that could not be improved upon, no episode that could not be more intense, and the whole is never so perfect that it could not be even more perfect.

Then his lips cease on the other lips cold sloth.

To be content with what one is given shows an attitude fit for slaves; only children ask for more; only madmen want to conquer more, for every conquest is […]

Everything belongs to others except my regret that it doesn't belong to me.

Tenho um segredo comigo Que me faz sempre cismar, É se quero estar contigo Ou quero contigo estar.

N-am nici ambi?ii ?i nici dorin?e. A fi poet nu e pentru mine o ambi?ie. e doar felul meu de a fi singur.

Tens vontade de comprar O que vês só porque o viste. Só a tenho de chorar Porque só compro o ser triste.

Em nada me pesa ou em mim dura o escrúpulo da hora presente. Tenho fome da extensão do tempo, e quero ser eu sem condições.

I have in me like a haze]" I have in me like a haze Which holds and which is nothing A nostalgia for nothing at all, The desire for something vague. I'm wrapped by it As by a fog, and I see The final star shining Above the stub in my ashtray. I smoked my life. How uncertain All I saw or read! All The world is a great open book That smiles at me in an unknown tongue.