5 George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Desire

George Bernard Shaw quotes on desire

20. As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

66. ... 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.

109. There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

205. Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.

237. 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.