Desire Loss Quotes

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.

We obtain things when we no longer want them.

Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.

A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.

I don't know what happened, but I lost the desire to acquire more things. It's very peaceful to have lost that desire.

My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex - ever. Now that the milk is free, we've both become lactose intolerant.

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.

Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.