Quotes About Desire

No true individual has existed yet, able to live, able to die. Only diseased, tragic, or dismal and ludicrous fools who sometimes hoped to achieve some ideal by fiat, by their great desire for it. But usually by bullying all mankind into believing them.

Who controls everything? Old men of this type. Without needs. They don't need therefore they have. I need, therefore I don't have.

Will never understand what women want. What do they want? They eat green salad and drink human blood.

When a man's breast feels like a cage from which all the dark birds have flown—he is free, he is light. And he longs to have his vultures back again. He wants his customary struggles, his nameless, empty works, his anger, his afflictions and his sins.

It was all there. Only he was not through with love and hate elsewhere.

If this was so, I was sunk, for by now I was more in love than I could stand, as if some mineral had got into my veins and arteries and I ached, flesh and bones, the way you will on the verge of the grippe.

Would never understand what women want. What do they want? They breath salad and drink human blood.

Those are the only two classes of people there are. Some want to live, but the great majority don't.

He chased ruin and death even harder than he had chased women. He blew his talent and his health and reached home, the grave, in a dusty slide.

I am giving up the violin. I guess I will never reach my object through it," to raise my spirit from the earth, to leave the body of this death. I was very stubborn. I wanted to raise myself into another world. My life and deeds were a prison.

Da budem iskren, nikada mi nije bilo bolje, napisao je. Ali nisam imao dovoljno snažan karakter da podnosim takvu radost. To zapravo i nije bila šala. Kad ?ovjek osje?a da su mu grudi poput krletke iz koje su izletjele sve tamne ptice - on je slobodan, lagan. I ?ezne za tim da mu se vrate njegovi lešinari. Želi svoje uobi?ajne sukobe, bezimena, prazna djela, svoju ogor?enost, jad i grijehe.

I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want.

Tražiti ispunjenje vlastitih težnji u drugome, u me?usobnim odnosima, ženska je igra. A muškarac koji bira od žene do žene, premda u srcu osje?a bol zbog idealizma, zbog želje za ?istom ljubavi, ušao je u žensko carstvo.

For knowledge of death makes us wish to extend our lives at the expense of others. And this is the root of the struggle for power.

And he makes all sorts of people feel that he has exactly what they've been looking for. Subtlety for the subtle. Warmth for the warm. For the crude, crudity. For the crooks, hypocrisy. Atrocity for the atrocious. Whatever your heart desires. Emotional plasma which can circulate in any system.

Unrequited love. Nowadays called hysterical dependency.

Nema muškarca koji može zadovoljiti ženu koja ga ne?e - rekao je Herzog. - U redu, zar vam nije s tim odgovoreno?

Now: the first requirement of stability in a human being was that the said human being should really desire to exist. This is what Spinoza says.

what are the generations for, please explain to me? Only to repeat fear and desire without a change? This cannot be what the thing is for, over and over and over. Any good man will try to break the cycle.

Everybody wanted to be what he was to the limit.

To God he jotted several lines. How my mind has struggled to make coherent sense. I have not been too good at it. But have desired to do your unknowable will, taking it, and you, without symbols. Everything of intensest significance. Especially if divested of me.

I'm sure I've got that part of the Aristophanic sex-myth straight. With the help of Eros we go on, each of us, looking for his missing half. Ravelstein was in real earnest about this quest, driven by longing. Not everyone feels that longing, or acknowledges it if he does feel it. In literature Antony and Cleopatra had it, Romeo and Juliet had it. Closer to our own time Anna Karenina and Emma Bovary had it, Stendhal's Madame de Rênal in her simplicity and innocence had

Oh, death from what we do not want is the most common of all the causes.

I don't think the struggles of desire can ever be won. Ages of longing and willing, willing and longing, and how have they ended? In a draw, dust and dust.