There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
What desire can be contrary to nature, since it was given to man by nature itself?
MICHEL FOUCAULT, Madness & Civilization
All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON, Hell's Angels
Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.
MARCEL PROUST, Within a Budding Grove
It is not poverty which produces sorrow, but desire.
Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.
