Quotes About Desire

For nothing bestializes a being like the taste for eternal happiness, the search for eternal happiness at any price, and mademoiselle Lucifer is that slut who never wanted to abandon eternal happiness.

Me pregunté, no por qué vivía, sino por qué había vivido. Supuse que por la espera y quise saber si aún esperaba algo. Me pareció que sí. Siempre se espera más

Her ardor matched my own. For a time I was eighteen years old once more, in all the perfection of youth.

El amor es una amistad con momentos eróticos.

Sólo esta carne, que se refugia en la noche recelando para pensar en el cubil del sueño: "me alegraré mañana", y se consuela; sólo esta amarga carne debería morir

Era incesante en la pasión vacía.

Bueno es saber que los vasos nos sirven para beber; lo malo es que no sabemos para qué sirve la sed.

I knew very well I couldn't give you many things you desired, but then neither will any other woman because what you want doesn't exist and you don't know how to want what's closest to you.

He'd forgotten the sensation of novely, the thrill of desiring a woman so intensely it was pure magnetism of her female presence that made him tremble, more than her physical beauty or the slightly exotic elegance of her dress or the spontaneity with which she had leaned on his arm, holding it tighter when a speeding care passed close to them

What had excited most about her from the start was what made him most afraid and what had eventually taken her away from him: the strength of her will.

He wasn't asking for a lasting future without distress, only a moment to look at her, hear her voice.

She wants to shake him, to feel the danger again and be capable of rejecting it, or to spare herself the pity she feels for him, the self pity she sees in him, the humiliation of having lost her and not being desired by her.

He had so little experience, or so little capacity for real introspection, he didn't imagine the guilt and anguish lying in wait; he didn't even ask himself what Judith Biely might be feeling. She didn't exist for him in an autonomous, complete way but only as a projection of his own desire

He is summoned not by her desire but by the fact of her existence.

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.

He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.

Buscando lo que deseo voy perdiendo el deseo de lo que busco.