Quotes About Desire

Love doesn't give you control—it takes control of you.

You make it sound mad," Sylvie said. "As if it drives you crazy.

Stars were caught in the tree branches. She wished she could keep stars in her pocket, just to give him every time she saw him.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous red head.

She had a thing for cocky assholes. When they expressed interest in her it seemed meaningful. When nice guys hit on her, she had trouble caring. 

Remove yourself from temptation. Don't even look at something if you know you shouldn't have it.

I was willing to take being second best if it meant I could still . . . you know. Be with him.

I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.

When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.

Her eyes astar with dreams

I do hope that some day I shall have a white dress. That is my highest ideal of earthly bliss.

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting

She wanted summer; fields of daisies; seas misty with moonrise or purple with sunset; companionship; Teddy. In such moments she always knew she wanted Teddy.

Human nature is always desirous of what one has not got!

Oh Marilla, ansiar pelas coisas é metade do prazer proporcionado por elas - exclamou Anne - Você pode até não conseguir essas coisas, mas nada pode lhe impedir de ter a diversão de ansiar por elas - Anne

It wouldn't do for us to have all our dreams fulfilled, we would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about.

Dzi?ki pragnieniu latania, przede wszystkim wznoszenia si?, tancerze stali si?, podobnie jak anio?owie, ogniwem ??cz?cym cz?owieka i Boga, niebo i ziemi?.

My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.

IfI wanted to eat an apple, and someone punched me in the stomach, taking away my appetite, then it was this punch that I originally wanted

La Ética, en tanto surge del deseo de decir algo acerca del significado último de la vida, del bien absoluto, de lo absolutamente valioso, no puede ser una ciencia. Lo que dice no le agrega nada a nuestro conocimiento en ningún sentido. Pero es un testimonio de una tendencia de la mente humana que yo, personalmente, no puedo si no respetar profundamente y que no ridiculizaría jamás, aunque mi vida dependiera de ello

Have you ever thought to go away and never come back? Run away and lose your tracks, to go to a place far away and start living again, living a new life, only yours, really live? Did you ever think?

Nati vivi, volevano vivere.

This awful fact…that you can be beside someone, looking them in the eyes…as I was looking a certain person in the eyes one day…and you can see you're a beggar at a gate through which you'll never enter; whoever does go in, it won't be you, ever, you with your world inside your head, the world you see and touch…

Men—do you understand?—have need of building a house even for their sentiments. It is not enough for them to have those sentiments within them, in their hearts; they want to see them outside, as well, so that they can touch them; and so, they proceed to build them a house.