Marquis de Sade Quotes

People have always asked me why I'm drawn to material about kids, and for me, it's - I remember being at that age and feeling completely and utterly powerless. You know, there's so many things you wanna do and so many things you're told you can't do.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

I don't make any secret of it - I hate not playing.

There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.

My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.

What you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another.

I get the urge for going/But I never seem to go.

But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all?

Why is the place where I want to be so often so far from where I am?

The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed - it was - impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.

You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to possess, for nothing on earth - no goal, no person how ever beloved - will answer it. It points to the sky and to the heavens and the stars and when it cannot reach them, it must fall back to pierce your heart.

If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.

I always feel like I'm very far from my potential.

I look at her wish we could go inside and make love on the couch. Dive inside each other. Take each other. Make each other. Nothing happens, though.

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.

I'm past carrying out some of the wishes that I would have wanted to do before, but I still dream about what I would like to do if I was able to do so.

"I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?"

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.

I had a very strong desire to carry out adventures, but in those early days I didn't actually do any. I just dreamt about it.

Tired of myself longing for what I have not

Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.

What I really wanted was the impossible.