Quotes About Desire

d'Artgnan felt his heart gripped by the sweet spasm that tortures and caresses the hearts of lovers. It was the first time a woman had ever given him a rendezvous.

Woman was created for our ruin, and it is from her that all our miseries come.

I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.

ambicionava voltar a ver em mim DESEJOS sobejamente intensos para submeter à realidade.

Não conheço outra verdade senão a dos meus desejos.

It was not man who implanted in himself what is infinite and the love of what is immortal: those lofty instincts are not the offspring of his capricious will; their steadfast foundation is fixed in human nature, and they exist in spite of his efforts. He may cross and distort them – destroy them he cannot. The soul wants which must be satisfied; and whatever pains be taken to divert it from itself, it soon grows weary, restless, and disquieted amidst the enjoyments of sense.

Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before them, yet without hiding itself from their sight, and in retiring draws them on. At every moment they think they are about to grasp it; it escapes at every moment from their hold. They are near enough to see its charms, but too far off to enjoy them; and before they have fully tasted its delights they die.

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken a stronger hold on the affections of men.

When both privileges and the disqualifications of class have been abolished and men have shattered the bonds which once held them immobile, the idea of progress comes naturally into each man's mind; the desire to rise swells in every heart at one, and all men want to quit their former social position. Ambition becomes a universal feeling.

Sixty years is too brief a compass for man's imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can never satisfy his heart.

The love of wealth is . . . to be traced, either as a principal or an accessory motive, at the bottom of all that the Americans do...

Among all beings, man alone shows a natural distaste for existence and an immense desire to exist: he scorns life and fears nothingness. These different instincts constantly push his soul toward the contemplation of another world, and it is religion that leads him there. So religion is only a particular form of hope, and it is as natural to the human heart as hope itself.u

No, no. No lo entiendes. Nadie quiere ser ganado. Queremos ser deseados, necesitados»

The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams…never for reality.

Mi amor por el cine es más grande que mi moral.

do you or don't you know the two worlds I'm talking about, the world that doesn't exist where you wish you could be on the dirt road that stretches out of Idaho away from the cave and family? The girl you want lives there. All my life I've wanted to be the grand gesture that forces the mouth open in disbelief Instead I was the lamp cord, collecting dust and never moving. It's easy to be the destroyed one.

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

I didn't want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.

What men yearn for they often destroy.

All this kissing was making her crazy; it was reminding her of what she could feel, and how it could be when you wanted someone as much as he wanted you.

He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

Love like this was all consuming. I found that I was jealous of the strangest things - sunlight, streets, curtains, even her clothing, anything that was close to her.

He has stumbled into love, and now he's stuck there. He's fairly used to not getting what he wants, and he's dealt with it, yet he can't help but wonder if that's only because he didn't want anything too badly.