Quotes About Desire

You cannot be both good and neutral, because to refuse desire is to refuse life. The goal is not to remove desire but to purify it.

En otras palabras, nuestra cultura actual está basada en el culto al deseo, y en lugar de enseñarnos a qué debemos renunciar si queremos seguir perteneciendo a esta civilización, nos dice que, como seres autónomos con capacidad de elección, debemos desprendernos de las antiguas prohibiciones para descubrir el sentido y el propósito de nuestra existencia.

Both mainstream liberalism and conservatism are essentially materialist ideologies, and we should not be surprised that both shape a society dedicated to the multiplication of wants and the intensification of desire, not the improvement of character.

Sex and commerce are fine things, but man cannot live by Viagra and the Dow Jones alone. A life led collecting things and experiences in pursuit of happiness is not necessarily a bad life, but it's not a good life either. Too often, the Democrats act like the Party of Lust, and the Republicans the Party of Greed. Both are deadly sins that eat at the soul.

It happens just because we need to want and to be wanted too, when love is here or gone to lie down in the darkness and listen to the warm.

This is the way it was while I was waiting for your eyes to find me.

I have fallen in love with the world And I am aware that I have chosen the most dangerous lover of them all.

I want to see the world within the circle of your arms and sail the wide sea of your thighs.

You see, we can feed the stomach with concentrates, we can supply microfilm for reading, recreation, even movies of a sort, we can pump oxygen in, and waste material out, but there's one thing we can't simulate. That's a very basic need. Man's hunger for companionship. The barrier of loneliness, that's one thing we haven't licked yet.

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.

It's the only thing sexier than a sexy woman. A sexy woman cooking fuckin' sausages.

I swooned the first time I saw Charlo. I actually did. I didn't faint or fall on the floor but my legs went rubbery on me and I giggled. I suddenly knew that I had lungs because they were empty and collapsing.

Do ghosts drink tea? They don't, said Tansey. But this ghost would love to see a cup of tea in front of her. It'd be lovely.

Aphrodite of sexual love, Apollo of light and poetry

My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.

f a group of guys are hanging around and one guy is doing coke, he'll say, 'Take a hit. You'll feel like a new man.' He's right; the problem is that once you feel like a new man, that new man wants a hit so he can feel like a new man. And that goes on and on until the coke runs out, and you're broke.

Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about.

Necesitaba de la intriga tanto como de los alimentos.

Schnitzler, me dije a mí mismo, tenía razón: «Una mujer te puede dejar por falta de amor, o por exceso de amor, por esto o por aquello, por todo o por nada».

I lay down beside her and there we stayed for a long time, kissing and caressing each other as we had never done before. It was as if both of us knew at each moment exactly the kind of caress that the other needed or desired.

El mañana en México suele ser un lugar donde se guardan los fragmentos de los deseos que se estrellaron contra la realidad. Es el cementerio de los proyectos fallidos.

The spirit of militant Islam suited the Turkish fighting spirit perfectly; the desire for plunder was legitimized by pious service to Allah.

Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.

EVERY TIME I see a dog in a movie, I think the same thing: I want that dog. I see Skip or Lucy or Shiloh and for a moment I can't even think about the movie's plot. I can only think about the dog. I want to hold it, pet it, take it for walks, and tell it what a good dog it is. I want to love it, and I want it to love me. I have an empty space inside myself that can only be filled by a dog.