Quotes About Desire

Why do we write? "To make suffering endurable To make evil intelligible To make justice desirable and . . . to make love possible

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

money so they say is the root of all evil today

Warum sollte nicht fehlen können, was man nie besaß?

When I said I wanted to die in my sleep, I meant I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

No one can romance and seduce like a narcissist. If a narcissist sees someone they want, then having "it" becomes a project of massive proportions. This person must be possessed at any cost.

Spontaneous expansion must be free: it cannot be under our control; and consequently it is utterly vain to say, as I constantly hear men say, that we desire to see spontaneous expansion, and yet must maintain our control. If we want to see spontaneous expansion we must establish native Churches free from our control.

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.

Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes?

Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amorous sentiment.

Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?

I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.

I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.

All difficulties in this life, every moment of difficulty, come from the distance between what is and what we want to be.

We hadn't yet traded freedom for comfort.

Pewnego dnia, gdy ojciec, pijany bardziej ni? zwykle, wbi? mi w?a?nie w czo?o gruby gwó?d? i zawiesi? na nim obraz, który o?mieli?em si? skrytykowa?, powiedzia?em sobie w duchu: "By?oby pocieszaj?ce, gdyby zjawi?a si? wró?ka i odstawi?a ten numer z trzema ?yczeniami.

And we'll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely.

And they say in truth that a man is made of desire. As his desire is, so is his faith. As his faith is, so are his works. As his works are, so he becomes.

You can't always get what you want But if you try sometime you find You get what you need

Eros is the center of the vitality of a culture--its heart and soul.