Quotes About Desire

The virtue of hope, in Enoch, was made up of two parts suspicion and one part lust.

I hope you understand that it is not the tooth of the saber-toothed tiger I want, it is the tiger . I don't care if it's a old toothless tiger or not, just so it's alive. I intend to start a zoo.

I don't want to be doomed to mediocrity in my feeling for Christ. I want to feel. I want to love. Take me, dear Lord, and set me in the direction I am to go

Mrs. Pritchard could not stand an anticlimax. She required the taste of blood from time to time to keep her equilibrium.

Two people can remain 'in love'—a phrase made practically useless by stinking romanticism—only if their common desire for each other unites in a greater desire for God—i.e., they do not become satisfied but more desirous together of the supernatural love in union with God.

The misery he had was a longing for home; it had nothing to do with Jesus.

The passionate desire to conclude is one of humanity's most pernicious and sterile manias.

Aimer quoi que et non parce que.

and since, human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars

A los ídolos es mejor no tocarlos porque algo de la pintura dorada que los recubría se nos queda siempre entre las manos

Emma notaba el corazón, que volvía a latirle, y cómo le circulaba la sangre por la carne como un río de leche

Neuken zegt mij niets meer. Mijn verlangen is te universeel, te permanent en te intens om er een bepaalde begeert op na te houden. Ik ga niet met vrouwen naar bed, maar ik doe als de dichter in jouw roman, ik verslind ze met mijn blik.

Naviknuta da gleda sve mirno oko sebe, tražila je nešto što je burno. More je volela samo zbog njegovih bura, zelenilo samo na proplancima me?u ruševinama. Bilo joj je potrebno da iz stvari izvla?i kao neku li?nu dobit; i odbacivala je kao nekorisno sve što nije doprinosilo neposrednom zasi?avanju njena srca, - budu?i da je bila više sentimentalne nego umetni?ke prirode, tražila uzbu?enja, a ne predele.

Uostalom, ništa i ne vredi tražiti; sve je laž! Svaki osmejak skriva zevanje od dosade, svaka radost neko prokletstvo, svako uživanje odvratnost prema njemu samom, a i najbolji poljupci samo vam ostavljaju neku neostvarljivu želju za kakvom višom nasladom.

Zato on i napusti flautu, ushi?ena ose?anja, maštanja - jer svaki buržuj je, u jeku svoje mladosti, makar jedan dan, makar jedan minut, verovao da je sposoban za ogromne strasti, za uzvišene pothvate. Najobi?niji raskalašnik je snevao o sultanijama; svaki beležnik nosi u sebi ostatke nekog pesnika.

Sve, pa i ona sama, bilo joj je nesnosno. Želela je da odleti kao ptica, da ode nekuda da se podmladi, daleko, daleko, u prostore bez ijedne pegice.

Ci si rifugia nella mediocrità quando non si spera più nelle cose belle che si sono sognate!

I would have liked to play in New York and be close to my family and friends, but since there is nothing I can do about it, I really don't care where I go.

From the moment I was a teenager, I wanted to be a father, wanted to be a family man.

We all know what it's like to want to have that support from our family members and the people that we love, especially our parents.

I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.

Nobody sane wants just to be famous.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

Only traumatised people want to be famous.