Quotes About Desire

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life striving after something he thinks will make him so

It took so long to find you...and now I don't want it to change. I want it all set in amber. I want us and nobody else in the most selfish way you can imagine. I can't help it--I'm old-fashioned. I believe marriage is between a man and a man.

Needing and loving are two different things.

With his mouth still tightly fixed to hers, their breaths mingling, he dragged her hand from around his neck and placed her palm just below her navel. Then he covered it with his own.

There are some things we run after and it turns out that we run in vain. Then there are things we don't pursue, and those are the things that escape us.

To kill and caress. Or simply kill, so you're not always bothered by something or somebody. So it is to be killed or to kill.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

It often gives a lady a pleasure to giver her lover a pang

We must stop eating!' cried Toad as he ate another.

Strong on desire but short on smarts, these

I always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.

Is dat niet uiteindelijk de enige opdracht van de mens? Je moet worden wat de anderen in je wensen te zien.

Zo was Hofmeester een man geworden die bang was weer te worden wat hij nooit meer wilde zijn: de minnaar van de vrouw die zijn dochter was.

Zijn lievelingsvijandin, de vrouw met wie hij zijn oorlog had willen uitvechten, zijn laatste, maar ze vocht niet terug.

Roland Oberstein is gelukkig, zou hijzelf verklaren, omdat hij niets wil wat hij niet kan krijgen. Wat hij wil kan hij krijgen. Wat hij niet kan krijgen, wil hij niet. Zo eenvoudig is het recept voor geluk.

Fake breasts: Women always say, "You know they're not real, don't you? She bought them." Do you know I don't care if they're real? I want to buy some, too. For the house, put them in different rooms. And on the dashboard of the car, for when I'm driving.

Basta-me minha imortalidade,/ o fluir de meu sangue de uma para outra era,/ mas em troca de um canto quente e seguro/ daria de bom grado minha vida,/ conquanto sua agulha voadora/ não me arrastasse, feito linha, mundo afora.

For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.

Well, for people who like that kind of thing, I think that is just about the kind of thing they'd like.

Ask with urgency and passion.

Satisfaction = what you have ÷ what you want

The joy that came to your caveman ancestor from finding a sweet berry on a bush couldn't occupy him for very long, lest he be distracted from the threat of the tiger, for whom your ancestor would make a nice lunch. That's why, when it comes to success, you can't ever get enough.

In the words of the Spanish Catholic saint Josemaría Escrivá, "He has most who needs least. Don't create needs for yourself."[19

satisfaction is possible—just not with the old formulas. We need to toss out all that bad math and use this one equation instead, which incorporates the wisdom of Siddhartha and Thomas and the best modern social science: Satisfaction = What you have ÷ what you want Your satisfaction is what you have, divided by what you want.