Quotes About Desire

The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me. Pound the life from my body. The flesh from my bones. The pain from my heart.

Sexual fulfillment is the banana life dangles in front of us just to keep us running.

Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.

We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.

I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.

We're all as susceptible to the lure of power.

The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.

We will cry and bleed and lust and love, and we will cure death. We will be the cure. Because we want it.

...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?

All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful.

Try to capture what you can't bear to be without

I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.

I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.

Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.

Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way.

In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.

The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters.

They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.