Quotes of: Desirability Keyword

The feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire or loathing. Desire urges us to posses, to go to something; loathing urges us to abandon, to go from something. These are kinetic emotions. The arts which excite them, pornographical or didacti...

James Joyce

The greatest hero is one who has control over his desires.

Sanskrit

... knowing what not to know was itself indispensable knowledge.

Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It

Could it be that desire for a good thing has become a bad thing because that desire has become a ruling thing?

Paul Tripp

Thought is power, as is desire, but neither is enough unless it is backed by faith, specificity, and the desire to see to it that it becomes.

Stephen Richards

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.

Slavoj Zizek

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

Slavoj Zizek

God is the creator of incredible beauty and all that He envisioned and desired to create, He also desired to share.

Michelle Carbotte

But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

Mike Figgis

It starts with Dreams—Dreams create Desires, Desires create Determination, which leads us to our Destiny.-RVM

Rvm

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

Giacomo Leopardi

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.

Stanley Hauerwas

Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth. (Gathas 27.14)

Life

Vronsky meanwhile, in spite of the complete fulfilment of what he had so long desired, was not completely happy. He soon felt that the realization of his longing gave him only one grain of the mountain of bliss he had anticipated. That realization sh...

Anna Karenina

Should the king in exile pretend he is happy there? Should he not seek his own country? His miseries are his ally; they urge him on. Let them grow, if need be. But do not forsake the secret of life; do not despise those kingly desires. We abandon the...

The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life We Always Dreamed of

Hunger goes in a straight line, desire turns in circles.

Romanian

Gods, I love it when you talk mathy to me.

Dark Desires After Dusk

What about the old standby of kicking a guy in the groin?" "Try to." Love to...

Dark Desires After Dusk

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

The Dovekeepers

I want to feel the victory of being desired by someone I once found desirable.

The Girl of Fire and Thorns

You are not The Giver of My Heart’s Desire.” I took a deep breath and smiled. “You are my heart’s desire.

Blackmoore