#sire

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. [Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour, March 9, 1998] ↗

— Toni Morrison

#exclusion #inspiration #paradises #utopias #wishes

ach, gebt mir meinen Tod, damit ich bleibe ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#sehnsucht-desire #tod #death

Over the vistas broke a cold gray light, such as seen in those false dawns that are neither night nor true morning, when the world and all its contents seem but shapes of mist, formed in vain hope and desire... If you awake from troubled sleep at such a time, you can only sit by the window and think of those that have been lost to you, those that followed your parents into those cold and heartless regions below the grass, silent and dark. Eventually, morning comes and the world resumes its solidity, but another tiny thread of ice has been stitched into your heart forever. ↗

— K.W. Jeter

#death #false-dawns #grass #gray-light #heart

I feel alive when you kiss me. ↗

— Missy Lyons

#desire #kiss #love #lust #romance-novel

Even a God finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. ↗

— Tina Smith

#love #wisdom #wise #wolf-sirens #love

The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story. ↗

— Ryan White

#accepted #aids #avoid #became #bigger

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else. ↗

— Peyton C. March

#irony #life #freedom

...I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.... ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#rules #slow-thinking #acting

When a man touches a woman's body, he is not just touching her body. It goes MUCH DEEPER than that for a woman. He is touching parts of her soul-parts as diverse as how she feels about being a grandmother some day, to what is her favorite ice cream, to how much she loves her pet, and to her opinion of how the current President is governing. The man wants a sexual encounter and love is far from his mind; she desires permanence, commitment, safety, and security. ↗

— Jim Anderson

#desire #love #man #mind #safety

Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone. ↗

— Robert Allen

#enlightenment