Desire quotations

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◆ Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don't think so though I'm not sure if I'd like to be and argh I don't think there's anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.

- Jess C. Scott99

◆ Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

- William Blake99

◆ My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

- Bertrand Russell99

◆ My head'll explode if I continue with this escapism.

- Jess C. Scott99

◆ All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

- Henry David Thoreau99

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

- Lev Grossman99

◆ It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the animal kingdom, and on which each individual of his species must ever again appear as a helpless infant... is a direct fulfilment of all, or of most, of the dearest wishes in his fairy-tales. All these possessions he has acquired through culture. Long ago he formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods. One may say, therefore, that these gods were the ideals of his culture. Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself. But only, it is true, in the way that ideals are usually realized in the general experience of humanity. Not completely; in some respects not at all, in others only by halves. Man has become a god by means of artificial limbs, so to speak, quite magnificent when equipped with all his accessory organs; but they do not grow on him and they still give him trouble at times... Future ages will produce further great advances in this realm of culture, probably inconceivable now, and will increase man's likeness to a god still more.

- Sigmund Freud99

◆ 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.

- Jack Llawayllynn99

◆ Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

- Paulo Coelho99

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we'll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

- Jess C. Scott99

◆ It has made me better loving you... it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them. Theoretically, I was satisfied. I flattered myself that I had limited my wants. But I was subject to irritation; I used to have morbid sterile hateful fits of hunger, of desire. Now I really am satisfied, because I can't think of anything better. It's just as when one has been trying to spell out a book in the twilight, and suddenly the lamp comes in. I had been putting out my eyes over the book of life, and finding nothing to reward me for my pains; but now that I can read it properly I see that it's a delightful story.

- Henry James99

◆ It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person.

- Tabitha Suzuma99

◆ I think that if we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we are alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.

- 99

◆ He who wants everything every time will lose everything any time.

- Vikrant Parsai99