#desire

I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#desire #love #death

You do not get what you wish for, unless it be known to the source of your desire. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#desires #fulfillment #hope #quotes #relationships

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

— Santosh Kalwar

#desire #death

We are all created by desire and we all die because of desire. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#desire #death

I don't want to be dying. I want to be dead. ↗

— girl

#desire #dying #want #death

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#greed #material #nourishment #food

Casey glanced at her plate again, recalling the posters of her elementary school lunchroom: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT. So, how much you ate indicated the quantity of your desire. Walter was also implying that how quickly you got your food revealed the likelihood of achieving your goals. She was in fact terribly hungry, but she'd pretended to be otherwise to be ladylike and had moved away from the table to be agreeable, and now she'd continue to be hungry" (Free Food For Millionaires, p.92.) ↗

— Min Jin Lee

#hunger #women #food

As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body! ↗

— Louis Aragon

#desire #freedom #freedom

When my sons arrived in the family, their legal status was not ambiguous at all. They were our kids. But their wants and affections were still atrophied by a year in the orphanage. They didn't know that flies on their faces were bad. They didn't know that a strange man feeding them their first scary gulps of solid food wasn't a torturer. Life in the cribs alone must have seemed to them like freedom. That's what I was missing about the biblical doctrine of adoption. Sure it's glorious in the long run. But it sure seems like hell in the short run. . . . ↗

— Russell Moore

#desire #fear #family

Whatever you eye falls on - for it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye. The things of this world draw us where we need to go. ↗

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

#mindfulness #objects #questions #life