While a common reaction to seeing a thing of beauty is to want to buy it, our real desire may be not so much to own what we find beautiful as to lay permanent claim to the inner qualities it embodies.
Owning such an object may help us realise our ambition of absorbing the virtues to which it alludes, but we ought not to presume that those virtues will automatically or effortlessly begin to rub off on us through tenure. Endeavouring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.
My love, you are playing with a fire that you do not fully understand.” His voice was deep and controlled. “There are times I may not be able to control myself. I am injured, and I need to feed – this would be one of those times.” ~Cole
Tina CarreiroMots clés romance paranormal-romance desire hunger vampire cole
Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since "the rest of your life" won’t last forever.
Omar KhayyámMots clés life future present carpe-diem time today tomorrow desire thoughts wasting-time
Desiring money kills desire. Money kills desire.
André ChamsonWhen faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.
Jeff LindsayMots clés desire easier conversational
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It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.
Fyodor DostoevskyMots clés pleasure desire fyodor-dostoyevsky
Sólo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignidad a todos los hombres. Así la poesía no habrá cantado en vano.
Pablo NerudaMots clés poetry justice patience hope desire human-rights dignity
One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
Friedrich NietzscheBut every spiteful word she ever wrote him was effortless love clenched in her fists. Her heart screaming for stability in this fiery game of desire.
Coco J. GingerMots clés love desire lovers breaking-up breakup love-story jamie-weise
I want your most vital organ. I want it to be mine.
Coco J. GingerMots clés love yearning heart desire lovers love-story passionate-living missing-someone jamie-weise organ
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