"Something is missing: that's as close as I……" — Caroline Knapp
"Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or of a great hollowness left where something lovely and solid used to be. ...There is something fundamentally insatiable about being human, as though we come into the world with a kind of built-in tension between the experience of being hungry, which is a condition of striving and yearning, and the experience of being fed, which may offer temporary satisfaction but always gives way to new strivings, new yearnings."
—
Caroline Knapp
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
56 Quotes by Caroline Knapp
Caroline Knapp has 56 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Alcoholism is the disease of more.
-
I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly…
-
Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you…
-
It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I…
-
Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious…
-
When you love somebody, or something, its amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.
-
Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.
-
Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as…
-
The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws…
-
So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that,…
-
When I drank, the part that felt dangerous and needy grew bright and strong and real. The part that coveted…
-
Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine…
See all 56 quotes by Caroline Knapp »
More Always Gives Quotes
This quote is filed under Always Gives Quotes,
one of 64 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
— Aesop
-
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
-
The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself…
— Oscar Wilde
-
It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.
— Eleanor Farjeon
-
We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what…
— Saint Augustine
-
I have absolute faith that anything can come to one who trusts to the unlimited help of the Universal Intelligence…
— Walter Russell
-
Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take…
— Mary Quant
-
Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most…
— Samuel Johnson
-
Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
— Sophocles
-
Procrastination always gives you something to look forward to.
— Joan Konner
-
For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself.
— Neville Goddard
-
Passing competitors always gives you a lift. It probably has a physical effect, too, because you get a surge of…
— Libbie Hickman
See all 64 Always Gives Quotes »