Coins Quote by Anonymous

“Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange. It is only by alienating the desired that…

— J.M. Coetzee

Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.

— Hafez

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

— Laura Esquivel

“Among the many forms of alienation, the most frequent one is alienation in language. If I express a feeling with a word, let us…

— Erich Fromm

Desire is possibility seeking expression.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because…

— Rob Bell

Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.

— Marcia Wieder

I think of desire as the essence that brings forth the whole universe.

— Tara Brach

Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.

— Anonymous

EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.

— Eric Hoffer

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

— Paulo Coelho

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at…

— Roland Barthes