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Desirability Quotes (page 4)

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know. Leo Tolstoy
Stanley Kunitz quote: "What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire."
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire. Stanley Kunitz
[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power relation is already present: an illusion, then, to denounce this relation for a repression exerted after the event. Michel Foucault
if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices - that is, an explanation of what they depend upon, by what laws they arise, how they develop, what they are aiming at in one case and in another and so on, that is a real mathematical formula - then, most likely, man will at once cease to feel desire, indeed, he will be certain to. For who would want to choose by rule? Besides, he will at once be transformed from a human being into an organ-stop or something... Fyodor Dostoevsky
The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place. Arthur Ransome
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote: "A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is..."
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Cleese quote: "I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one..."
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires. John Cleese
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael quote: "The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the..."
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue? Edgar Rice Burroghs
Maya Angelou quote: "The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to..."
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. Maya Angelou
Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading. "After all," sighed Narcissus the hunchback, "on me it looks good. The contemplation of his reflection does not turn Narcissus into Priapus: the spell in which he is trapped is not a desire for himself but the satisfaction of not desiring the nymphs. "I prefer my pistol to my p…," said Narcissus; "it... W. H. Auden
I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust. It is one of the effects, perhaps one of the functions of literature to arouse desire, and I can discover no grounds for saying that sexual pleasure should not be among the objects of desire which literature presents to us, along with heroism, virtue, peace, death, food, wisdom, God, etc. Lionel Trilling
Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it. Marcel Proust
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. Bertrand Russell
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before,—a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our... Henry David Thoreau

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