Desire Quote by Marilynne Robinson Download Open image ““To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.”” — Marilynne Robinson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire
“For need can blossom into all the compensations it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Life is very strange. Here we miss the very thing that we crave for and cling to, and we find what we don’t seek.… — Osho Copy Share Image
“There's not one good thought in that place. There's nothing but waste and want. I can feel his selfish cravings and an abyss of… — Steve V. Cypert Copy Share Image
“Craving for what you don’t have kills your enjoyment for what you already have.” — Tapan Ghosh Copy Share Image
“What must it be like to be craved that way? To return that feeling with such ferocity?” — Ella Frank Copy Share Image
“I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire. Another life is never safely envied.” — Robert Wells Copy Share Image
“...perversely, it is often more fun to want something than to have it.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I have to really love something for me to want it, crave it, spend my time on it, and give it a second chance.” — April Mae Monterrosa Copy Share Image
“It was as if I were powerless to resist the temptation; my senses were overcome. I could hear the emptiness, and taste the silence,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I think sometimes there might be an advantage in making people aware how worn and stale these old transgressions are. It might take some… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Faith for her was habit and family loyalty, a reverence for the Bible which was also literary, admiration for her mother and father. And… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.’ There are pleasures to be found where you… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I sometimes am discouraged by what seems to be a sort of conventional disparagement of humankind. I think often people feel that they are… — Marilynne Robinson 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
![“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of…” quote by John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/84c/john-steinbeck-71_art_teaching-might-even-be-the-greatest-of-t_1738.jpg)
