Quotes About Desire

Money gives you independence; but when you start chasing it, it is never enough.

If you have that rage to live, don't do something silly and mess up what you already have because you crave more. There is no amount of "more" that will ever satisfy. Once you are aware of this, once you are cognizant of the rage, then perhaps you can see when it leads you astray, taking over your thoughts, propelling you into a course of action you may regret.

Great sex is, of course, a top priority.

There is no amount of MORE that can ever satisfy.

The mating of the future which will be a success will be founded on the truth of being. We are not only making a new woman—we are making a new man. We are not only bringing forth the truth in women but making men desire the truth.

Woman's emancipation means education of men as well as women," Alva insisted. "The mating of the future which will be a success will be founded on the truth of being. We are not only making a new woman—we are making a new man. We are not only bringing forth the truth in women but making men desire the truth.

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Espérer , c'est désirer sans jouir , sans savoir et sans pouvoir

Se não creio em Deus é também, e talvez principalmente, porque preferiria que ele existisse. É a aposta de Pascal, se quiserem, mas invertida. (...) Ora, Deus é tanto menos verossímil, parece-me, quanto mais é desejável: ele corresponde tão bem a nossos desejos mais fortes que é o caso de indagar se não o inventamos por isso.

I like life well enough to want to live it awake

Long only for what you have.

Ne désire jamais, Nathanaël, regoûter les eaux du passé...Ne cherche pas, dans l'avenir, à retrouver jamais le passé. Saisis de chaque instant la nouveauté irressemblable et ne prépare pas tes joies, ou sache qu'en son lieu préparé te surprendra une joie autre.

Je n'aime pas les hommes; j'aime ce qui les dévore.

Que ton désir soit de l'amour, et que ta possession soit amoureuse.

La tristesse est une complication. Jamais je ne cherchais à analyser mon bonheur. ... Et je me demande à present si c'est bien le bonheur que je souhaite ou plutôt l'acheminement vers le bonheur.

How happy Ménalque is, I thought, since he has nothing! As for me, I am suffering because I want to conserve things. What importance is all this in the end?

Car, je te le dis en vérité, Nathanaël, chaque désir m'a plus enrichi que la possession toujours fausse de l'objet même de mon désir.

Il y a des maladies extravagantes. Qui consistent à vouloir ce que l'on n'a pas.

One has to choose. The main thing is to know what one wants...

If this was happiness, I know that I wanted to hold it like one wants in vain to hold running water in joined hands. But I was already feeling alongside this happiness something other than happiness which was covering my love like the coloring of autumn.

Etre aimé n'est rien, c'est être préféré que je désire.

One imagines one possesses and in reality one is possessed.

Seigneur, il m'apparaît parfois que j'ai besoin de son amour pour vous aimer!