Frank Gehry Quotes

Desire is an attempt to feel the void.

Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and final when that dream house is your own address. What is left to you? Surrounded by what you wanted, you feel a sense of amputation. The feelings you were used to abiding with are useless. The conditions you established for your happiness are met. That youthful light-headed feeling whose sharp side is much like hunger is of no more use to you.

All I see is people out there who are hungry for more.

I'm still missing that little something.

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it.

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

I'm always interested in something that's missing.

What you've never had, you never miss.

Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of make my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.

All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.

The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.

There was always something missing in Montreal.

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

What are these voices outside love's open door, make us throw off our contentment, and beg for something more?

The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.

If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Whoever desires is always poor.

The more desires you have, the more misery you will create for yourself. Misery is a consequence of desiring - and you go on desiring. In fact, you think that if your desires are fulfilled your miseries will disappear. In the first place they are never fulfilled; in the second place, if they are fulfilled, nothing is fulfilled by their fulfillment. You remain as empty as you have always been - or even more, because up to now you were occupied with a certain desire; now even that is fulfilled. A deep deep emptiness comes to you.

However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.

That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.