Desire Quote by Georges Bataille Download Open image “Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.” — Georges Bataille ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Empty Entirety Exuberance Longing Nostalgia
I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing. — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
Every desire of yours that comes true brings you a little closer to seeing that what you wanted exists nowhere but in you. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Surely your longings and feelings arise from the God who created you. They were created in order to be filled, not crushed. Surely we… — Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair. — Allen Wheelis Copy Share Image
“That the real source of all true longing is the human desire to attach ourselves to something infinite.” — Shmuley Boteach Copy Share Image
From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature. — Anna Sui Copy Share Image
“...that yearning inside you that seeks for fulfillment - does it still burn?...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“The absent and inert girl hanging dreamless from my arms is no more foreign to me than the door or window through which I… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Pathetic creatures on their knees... Tirelessly, naively repeating, "Don't take our word for it! Alas, we're not all that logical. We say God–though in… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image