George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Desire
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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... the book about the bird and the bee is natural history. It's an awful lesson to mankind. You think that you are Ann's suitor; that you are the pursuer and she the pursued; that it is your part to woo, to persuade, to prevail, to overcome. Fool: it is you who are the pursued, the marked down quarry, the destined prey. You need not sit looking longingly at the bait through the wires of the trap: the door is open, and will remain so until it shuts behind you for ever.
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
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Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.
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The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.