“Achieving your heart’s desire is the key to living a life of bliss, bring your heart alive with a passion for living.”
Source: Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
“Our deepest (and fastest) yearnings can be tempered by reason and experience; our more prudent judgments softened by desire and need.”
Source: The Art of Risk: The New Science of Courage, Caution, and Chance
“Love cannot pain, desire can.”
Source: Destiny of Shattered Dreams
“Are we, intellectual sirs, not actively or passively 'producing' more and more words, more books, more articles, ceaselessly refilling the pot-boiler of speech, gorging ourselves on it rather, seizing books and 'experiences', to metamorphose them as quickly as possible into other words, plugging us in here, being plugged in there, just like Mina on her blue squared oilcloth, extending the market and the trade in words of course, but also multiplying the chances of jouissance, scraping up intensities wherever possible, and never being sufficiently dead, for we too are required to go from forty to the hundred a day, and we will never play the whore enough, we will never be dead enough”
Source: Libidinal Economy
“I am wild, untameable, the storm and the eye within
An unpredictable gypsy, with passion beyond your wildest dreams
and unquenchable desires
for you and you alone...
Persistent and fiercely loyal,
today I choose to be all of these
and more…
Will you still be here tomorrow?”
“I began to realize what everyone in the world knows and routinely forgets: that to be loved sexually is to be loved not for one's actual self but for one's ability to arouse desire in the other...Only the thoughts in one's mind or intuitions of the spirit can attract permanently...”
Source: The Odd Woman and the City
“Where are we headed? Are we not endlessly plunging —backwards, sideways, forwards, in all directions? Is there an up and a down anymore? Do we not wander as if through an endless nothingness? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Hasn’t it grown colder?”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“The secret tugs at my sleeve.
A child looking for attention.
It is not a big secret.
But it is not the only one either.
“Strength in numbers” they say.
For they are many.
Many little things that – together –
weigh tonnes.
And take up space.
And are quite noisy.
The way only a lot of whispers can make noise.
And they follow me.
Little secrets
of omission, desire,
and denial.
Of indulgence, hedonism,
and exploration.
Of peeves, passion,
and deep-seated fear.
Little secrets
of despair
and
disrepair
and
prohibited thoroughfare.”
Source: Years: a book of tiny poetry
“We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.”
Source: Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition and the Life of Faith
“I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish to fight?”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear