Angela Carter: Desire

Angela Carter was English novelist. Explore interesting quotes on desire.

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“I desire therefore I exist.”

Angela Carter book The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

Source: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

“Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.”

Source: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

“I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.”

Angela Carter book The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

Source: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

“To be the object of desire is to be defined in the passive case.
To exist in the passive case is to die in the passive case – that is, to be killed.
This is the moral of the fairy tale about the perfect woman.”

Source: The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography