A Quote by Ai Yazawa

Why.. is human desire so unsatisfying?

Ai Yazawa

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Desire Human Why

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Ai Yazawa
Japanese - Author
Born: March 7, 1967

'The Stepford Wives' was too big, and it was unsatisfying to do. Not that it was unsatisfying to do, but it was unsatisfying as a result because, as much as I loved parts of it, and I'm really proud of so much of it, the entire movie wasn't what I wanted it to be. It's my own fault; I didn't follow my instincts.

Frank Oz

The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order.

Janet Burroway

Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why do we cry when we see a painting? Why is there a riot in the heart when we love? Why do we feel shame? What is that thing in the pit of your stomach called desire?

Benjamin Alire Saenz

Desire is the strongest human emotion - desire for a hat, desire for a dress; that's what drives people to buy and want things.

Isabella Blow

What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.

Albert Camus

If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls against temptation, why not get better at fulfilling desire? Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.

Tom Robbins

All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.

Alice Sebold

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

John McCarthy

For me, diversity whether you think of it as race or gender, it's not a trend, it's a human movement, it's a human feeling, it's a human desire.

Iman Abdulmajid

The human desire for food and sex is relatively equal. If there are armed rapes, why should there not be armed hot dog thefts?

John Kennedy Toole

It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.

Nicole Kidman

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.

Jacques Lacan

I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I've always been very interested in ensemble work. One reason why I don't go out and do a stand-up act is that I did it once and I found it unsatisfying. I don't really like being out there by myself. I like reacting with other people.

Paul Reubens

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.