Air Quote by Ian Mcewan

“He's always had a nameless, unanchored longing; and when, at critical points in his life, a period of intense longing coincided with the appearance…

— Josephine Humphreys

“In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough contentment with…

— Chad Harbach

He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world he’d never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front…

— Christine Feehan

“He worries a lot and often suffers from feelings of self-doubt. He has a natural attraction to the melancholy side of life. He is…

— Sandra Nichols

For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of…

— Hermann Hesse

“He had thought of love as a rapture which seized one so that all the world seemed spring-like, he had looked forward to an…

— W. Somerset Maugham

He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day…

— W. Somerset Maugham

For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the…

— Edith Wharton

When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he…

— Norton Juster

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

— Martin Heidegger

“There’s a boiling pot of paranoia in the pit of his stomach. That slow, heavy weight he always has when he leaves the house,…

— pleasefindthis

He had never felt anything like that before - yet somehow he knew that from now on he would always feel like that, always,…

— Jack Kerouac