#desire

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#desire #beauty

She looked like the kind of woman I could fall in love with. Trouble is, she was standing next to the kind of woman I’d like to make love to. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#beauty #confusion #decision #desire #dilemma

Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us. ↗

— Donald Miller

#life

As a general rule, desire is always marketable: we don’t do anything but sell, buy, exchange desires. . . . And I think of Bloy’s words: “there is nothing perfectly beautiful except what is invisible and above all unbuyable. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#language #beauty

He was raw and sharp and rich and throbbing with life. He was sweet blood after a long hunt. How could she have mistaken Aiden's kisses for this? They had been delicious and smooth like the brief comfort of chocolate, but they had never been enough. ↗

— Annette Curtis Klause

#desire #love #life

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do). ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#habit #knowledge #skill #change

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#desire #longing #pain #suffering #time

I 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 Hughes Galeano

#desire #kill #time #truth #courage

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

#desire #imagination #instinct #intellect #love

The desire of death will not always lead you to death but the fear of death will. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#desire #death