#desire

I began with the desire to speak with the dead. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#education #historians #history #knowledge #shakespeare

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#desire #existence #lacan #lack #experience

Why?” he whispered as he leaned over her, supported on one arm. “Why must ye be the one that haunts me dreams? I’ve seen ye weepin’ night after bloody night since the day I sent ye from me palace with yer dress half undone. If I had it to do over again, I’d cut me own right hand off rather than hurt ye so. Will ye never be able to forgive me, Silence love?” “I already have,” she replied, cradling his cheek in her hand. “Long, long ago. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#mickey #scandalous-desires #silence #dreams

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

— Louis Aragon

#desire #freedom #freedom

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me. ↗

— Jane Grey

#although #attention #attentions #death #desires

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#desires #emotions #fears #form #human

I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#desire #explores #human #i #i believe

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#decrease #desire #growth #must #only

He finally understood...the thing that the people during the Paleolitic Age, freaking 20,000 to 8,000 B.C., were after when they came up with mythologies to do with flight—a desire for the magic of the sky, for something bigger than their feet treading the earth. ↗

— Maud Casey

#gods #mythology #understanding #age

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#conscious mind #desire #fear #focus #key