Quotes About Desire

for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

Quien desea de corazón ser mejor, tiene medio camino hecho

Verdad que estamos bien? ¡Fuera, mamarracho! ¡Cállese usted la boca! ¡Dame un beso, rica! ¡Ah, ah!

It must be recorded of Amy that she deliberately prinked that night. Time and absence had done its work on both the young people. She had seen her old friend in a new light, not as 'our boy', but as a handsome and agreeable man, and she was conscious of a very natural desire to find favor in his sight. Amy knew her good points, and made the most of them with the taste and skill which is a fortune to a poor and pretty woman.

Desechar todos los regalos que nos brinda la vida porque no nos da el que queremos es una mezquindad.

and she found that something more than money and position was needed to satisfy the new longing that filled her heart so full of tender hopes and fears.

it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants, doesn't it?

Los hombres sólo gruñen cuando tienen hambre

I wish I had a horse; then I could run for miles in this splendid air, and not lose my breath.

As she said, she was "fond of luxury," and her chief trouble was poverty.

But I don't think the little we should spend would do any good. We've each got a dollar, and the army wouldn't be much helped by our giving that. I agree not to expect anything from Mother or you, but I do want to buy Undine and Sintram for myself. I've wanted it so long," said Jo, who was a bookworm

That I was in love? Well, I am, but not with her.

Dear, how charming! I hope I shall go abroad some day, but I'd rather go to Rome than the row, said Amy, who had not the remotest idea what the Row was and wouldn't have asked for the world.

Money is the means and the ends of my mercenary existence.

No le valoré como merecía cuando le tuve cerca y, ahora que todo el mundo se va y me siento tan sola ¡me gustaría tanto verle!

he came for her sake alone.

Mine first—mine last— mine even in the grave!

Nuestras cargas están aquí, nuestro camino está delante de nosotras y el deseo de bondad y felicidad es lo que nos dirige a traves de muchas penas y equivocaciones hasta la paz.

I could love you, I could kill you. I want this. This is how I make my mark, this is where I plant my flag, this is how I stake my claim, this is how I deny you, this is how I claim you, this is what you owe me, this is what I am taking, this is how I know I'm alive.

The effects of moving are experienced in the body, in the imagination, in the realm of desire. What the eye sees, what the body feels, what the heart yearns for, what remains and what has been lost -- these are difficult at first to describe.

Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.

I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about.

Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.

She gave her husband such a night of sexual pleasure that his eyes followed her constantly after that, narrow and hot. He grew molten when she passed near other men, and at night they made their own shaking tent. They got teased too much and moved farther off, into the brush, into the nesting ground of shy and holy loons. There, no one could hear them. In solitude they made love until they became gaunt and hungry, pale windigos with aching eyes, tongues of flame.