Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“What does this mean, then – I’m afraid? Scared of physical intimacy? No. I crave it, I dream about it. But for… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists… — Sarah Dunn Copy Share Image
I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The flowers that I left in the ground, that I did not gather for you, today I bring them all back, to… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
“Shall the water not remember Ember my hand’s slow gesture, tracing above of its mirror my half-imaginary airy portrait? My only belonging… — Fred Chappell Copy Share Image
A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“My letters! all dead paper, mute and white! And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous hands which loose the… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“He gave my hair a final, gentle tug and turned away. I watched him go, Hunger and longing and that strange squirmy… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“I will always be the other woman. I disappear for a time like the moon in daylight, then rise at night all… — Linda Pastan Copy Share Image
Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and Socrates… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“For I knew already that something had taken me from me, and had replaced it with a desperate longing for a time… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
“Well, I had often pondered all this, not without an intense longing sometimes to turn to and do something real for once,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Todo te lo tragaste, como la lejania, como el mar, como el tiempo... Ese fue mi destino y en el viajo mi… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“One soft humid early spring morning driving a winding road across Mount Tamalpais, the 2,500-foot mountain just north of the Golden Gate… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I could wish to spy the nakedness of their hearts, and through the different disguises of customs, climates, and religion, find out… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I miss the way you made me smile when I was broken. I miss the way you made me feel like I… — Lacey Aleshia Turner Copy Share Image
Only a handful of Germans in the Reich had the slightest conception of the eternal and merciless struggle for the German language,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
“All of the love and the longing a body can contain was spun into not more than two and a half minutes… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Moderation and limitation represent the highest with regard to human strivings. If also an infinite longing never abandons the person because he… — Helmuth Plessner Copy Share Image
Consider the idea of a God who is essentially sadness and longing, yearning to reveal himself, to know himself through a being… — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
“The ocean exerts an inexorable pull over sea people wherever they are-in a bright-lit, inland city or the dead center of a… — Anuradha Roy Copy Share Image
When women and men understand that working to eradicate patriarchal domination is a struggle rooted in the longing to make a world… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It wasn't shared social status or ethnicity that brought Jesus' followers together either, nor was it total agreement on exactly who this… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Every gay reader understands the secret self that is full and wonderful and has longing and tenderness and a desire for connection… — Lynda Carter Copy Share Image
“From the days of our ancestors, those forgotten few who birthed us all, mankind has gazed awestruck into the heavens above. Night… — Taylor P. Davidson Copy Share Image
What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“Calling to Measure It’s an obsession now, this matching And measuring, comparing, for instance, The coral-violet of the inner lip Of a… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps,… — John Haines Copy Share Image
“He found himself in the strange predicament all sailors share: essentially he belonged neither to the land nor to the sea. Possibly… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I wondered what my father had looked like that day, how he had felt, marrying the lively and beautiful girl who was… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I don't know why I feel so wounded with Kartik's obvious infatuation with Pippa. There's no romance between us. There's nothing that… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“The correspondence testifies to the frailty of human longings, to the process of how something precious can turn fatal, a reality become… — Karina Szczurek Copy Share Image
“Apparently, then, our lifelong nostalgia, our longing to be reunited with something in the universe from which we now feel cut off,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
