Desire Quotes - Page 4

You start getting satisfied you stop getting better.

Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world - to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in.

The mind confines our outlooks to a mere bundles of desires, pleasures, prejudices, and fears to safeguard the body it inhabits.

I didn't know how I could want things so badly while making it impossible to ever get them.

God created you to be in the world.
You are in the world to fulfil a specific mission.

we can't even control a blind man's desire to see the world by his own eye,philosophy is to see outside by inside.

See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
O, that I were a glove upon that hand
That I might touch that cheek!

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

I desire to be with you. I miss you. I feel lonely when I can't see you. I am obsessed with you, fascinated by you, infatuated with you. I hunger for your taste, your smell, the feel of your soul touching mine.

I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.

For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

Why me?" she asked, holding on to him.

"Because you cared," he whispered. "You cared so much for your people, it broke your heart to see the pack in ruins. You cared so much for your mother, you risked your life for hers. You cared enough to save someone who wanted you dead. And because you walk like a queen.

Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire is illness, a feverish brain. Who can be considered healthy who wants? The very word want suggests a lack, an impoverishment, and that is what desire is: an impoverishment of the brain, a flaw, a mistake.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again. “Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing,” he agrees.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.