Desire Quote by Colum McCann Download Open image ““Once we had filled each other with desire, not remembrance.”” — Colum McCann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Nostalgia
“There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.” — Deborah L. Norris Copy Share Image
“And he uncovered in us a curious need: that we each secretly wanted him to remember us the most. It was strange, both vital… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Afterward I remembered these things very clearly, with that longing we feel sometimes to recover a state of life that we have lost for… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“We long for a life we never had but of which we seem to have a clear memory; a life in wich there is… — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“Desire has no reason, and the need for intimacy had never stopped. I had not conjured up the images in years, his lips on… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
“Remembrance. Even more, confession. It did always made the heavy things come loose.” — Erika Robuck Copy Share Image
“The person you loved, held, and cared for, and were most intimate with, is now nothing but a fragile set of memories that will… — Howard Bronson Copy Share Image
“If we lose loved ones, we must celebrate our time together, promise ourselves to remember them fondly, and then move on to whatever the… — Jake Remington Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, though, you want to remember every minute you spent with someone. You want to remember even the most mundane moments. You wish you… — Jeff Zentner Copy Share Image
“This-our love for each other-was the most sacred of things my hearts had ever known. And I was willing to do whatever it took… — Nely Cab Copy Share Image
Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure it's the last we'll ever have and we record… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“The short sharp shock of three thousand mother two hundred mothers. The ones who picked through the supermarket debris for pieces of their dead… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“How long ago it was and how strange, but all dead friends come to life again sometimes.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“She would want, instead, to recall him in the air, between layers of cloud. To give him back that ancient dignity.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy;… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Bits of it floating in the air, he said. "It's like dust. You walk about and don't see it, don't notice it, but it's… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“He has read whole volumes on the philosophy of nonviolence. How peace had to be understood in all its moral dimensions. The proper coexistence… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“She’s always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing it… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
