Quotes About Desire

le temps va plus vite quand les gens veulent l'arrêter.

We always think of what's missing.

Altijd heb ik die foto van Carole Laure bij me. Een gulzige mond en vochtige ogen (...) Carole Laure in mijn bed. Carole Laure die een heerlijk negermaal voor me bereidt (rijst en kip met kruiden). Carole Laure die naast me zit en met wie ik samen in deze smerige, luizige kamer jazz beluister. Carole Laure als slavin van een neger. Waarom niet? (p.21)

I'll never willingly let you go. Not after all these years of wanting you. You're my life-you're in my head and in my heart and in the air that I breathe. Every conscious moment is filled with you, and I wake every day with your name singing on my mind, I hunger for you every night, and I lie there in that spare bed, sick with longing for you, and sweating because if i come to you, it will be a ....

She knew then, if without the words to express it, that what she was studying was not simply music but beauty, and that she wanted to inhabit, completely, that beauty—and

Što god ti rekao, vjeruješ u ljubav. Potrebna ti je. Jednoga dana srest ?eš ženu pred kojom ?eš se rastopiti kad je vidiš. Poželjet ?eš svakog trenutka u danu biti s njom. Stari moj, u želatinu ?eš se pretvoriti.

One needed, she saw now, only a few belongings, just as one needed only a few close friends, and a single passion - it need not be a person, neccissarily.

Even now she felt the need to add, "At a certain point I realized that everyone has something like this." "What do you mean, 'like this'?" "Everyone has something they want but don't get to have.

No one ever understands what happened with Adam and Eve. That story isn't about sex. It's about death. The forbidden desire isn't love or lust—you can get that stuff anytime down at the public bath, even on earth. The forbidden desire is immortality.

Everything was new, now I'm a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.

I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.

I stare at him, lovestruck. I have just tipped my hand, shown the worst of myself - faithless, foolish, weak as any woman has ever been accused of being - and still he wants me.

How is it that mankind can engineer condoms to prevent pregnancy and STDs and not be able to invent some sort of emotional safeguard? Is it even possible to abstain from falling in love?

I can live without a boy. So why does it feel like I'm going to die?

Why did I have to love him so much if we're not going to end up together?

Love is . . . needing to be with this one person. No—it's more like wanting to need to be with this one person. Last semester my English professor read us this great Robert Frost quotation that went something like, 'Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

There's something about the sight of a gorgeous guy in an open convertible heading in your direction that makes all bad feelings evaporate into thin air.

Che si spezzi il cuore affidato ad un corpo che vuole e non vuole morire; anzi disvuole volendo la morte tacita e notturna, in una stanza nottivaga, libera da storie magica stanza inquieta nella mano palpitante e sincera la mano che calza la mattina, la copre le coperte sventagliate al sole che sta lì dinanzi al vento di albe e mattine

Quando si abbandona la strada certa per l'incerta anche gli amici ti abbandonano o i lettori che è peggio. Quando si parla solo a se stessi, con ossessa ripetizione della voglia di farsi male alle radici allora sì che resta solo chi vuole bere la cicuta fino in fondo...

If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband's murder.

Imao je vje?nost na raspolaganju i nije se mogao sjetiti ni?ega što bi do njezina kraja volio više ?initi, do biti uz ženu koju voli.

Break the arm of the wicked man; call the evildoer to account for his wickedness that would not be found out. The Lord is King for ever and ever; the nations will perish from his land. You, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry, defending the fatherless and the oppressed, so that mere earthly mortals will never again strike terror. Psalm 10:15–18, NIV

Things not going your way? Are you facing hardships? What an opportunity to experience true freedom. Take this season to focus on desiring God's will in every area of your life. Then celebrate the freedom of living life as God intended you to.

Tenth is the cultural desire to acknowledge religious diversity in such a way that peace can be maintained and the question of whether one religious tradition has more to offer than another is ignored.