Unequal Desire Quotes & Sayings

A love story can never be about full possession. The happy marriage, the requited love, the desire that never dims
these are lucky eventualites but they aren't love stories. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name.
We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish it. You will not go on loving in the grave, not in any physical way that will at all resemble love as we know it on earth. The perishable nature of love is what gives love its importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.
And we certainly wouldn't write about it. — Jeffrey Eugenides

People never understand what a friendship is. I'll tell you what a friendship is to me. Friendship to me is, if my friends need my little finger to live, I'm going to have it cut off. I'm going to the hospital, they cut off my finger, and maybe I have a gold finger instead, and I become famous. But I still give it to my friend. — Udo Kier

Butterflies have always had wings; people have always had legs. While history is marked by the hybridity of human societies & the desire for movement, the reality of most of migration today reveals the unequal relations between rich & poor, between North and South, between whiteness and its others. — Harsha Walia

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with. — Sue Grafton

So much ice.
She thumbed a drying tear away.
How much water can the weight of ice carry? — Dianna Hardy

To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires. — John Arbuthnot

If we understand many more things than other people, we owe it to our nervous system which is far more disturbed. One says 'I'm sad' but no one realizes what is the cause of his/her sadness; it may come from the stomach; or from a tune we have just listened to and which failed to impress us on the spot; or it may come from frustrated sexual desire ... It is not easy to see beyond symbolic forms of expression. People don't realize that you can negate the progress of humanity because your feet hurt. It is important to see beyond that which is given; and yet, once you see it, nothing matters. — Emil Cioran

If I cover my head with my hands, it means deny the ball to the opponent's ball handler. — Don Meyer

It's always been good here at Edenlove to keep coming here and entertain the crowd. — Rohit Sharma

The street is full of humiliations to the proud. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

This stupid celebrity thing is just a consequence of being good at what you do. I mean, no one would photograph David Beckham if he wasn't the best attacking midfielder in the country - much as I hate Man. U! — Nick Moran

We'd end up with a mole planet slightly larger than the Moon. — Randall Munroe

When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. A love story can never be about full posession. The happy marriage, the requited love, the desire that never dims
these are lucky eventualities but they aren't love stories. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I've been a performer for a long time and I know when people are laughing from their guts, from the inside, and when their tuxedos are laughing. — George Carlin

It makes me think that a marriage of true minds - to again quote Shakespeare - is in many ways just dumb luck. — Carlene Bauer

We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again. — Joan D. Chittister

I can see his pride
Peep through each part of him. — William Shakespeare