Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
Eric HofferTag: frustration desire need want
In this stillness that is at the same time movement, in this darkness that is at the same time light, change is found not in the realm of ideas but in the energizing desire that is realized through precipitation. Desire tends towards its own realization and change takes place when the desire for it shatters the bounds of the possible, breaking the dialectical equilibrium holding together the framework of what is existent. It is at such moments that the imaginary flows into the real and overwhelms it, inundating it until it has been absorbed.
Michael RichardsonTag: reality desire surrealism imaginary
And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else's gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another's eyes.
Meg RosoffTag: age love beauty time dream self-image body desire aging
All day and all night my desire for you unwinds like a poisonous snake.
Samar SenUltimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.
Friedrich NietzscheAll joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.
C.S. LewisI have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire
Eduardo GaleanoTag: truth time courage kill desire
I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.
Anaïs NinIf I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.
Noel LangleyTag: contentment home satisfaction desire
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys
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