Desire Quote by Milan Kundera

“Mesmerized, all she can do is watch this piece of her life move off; all she can do is watch it and suffer. She…

— Milan Kundera

“...she is living on the outskirts of a precious world that is slipping away. On the other side of this window, events take their…

— Nicholas Dickner

“When she returned, she was full of life, impassioned. She seemed to want change, within herself, between them, and she believed all things were…

— Madeleine Thien

“life is not an echo, endlessly returning the past to us so that we might read and reread in its fading variations the meanings…

— John Burnham Schwartz

“She had an immense store of trivial memories and when she wasn't living in the future she was living in the past. As for…

— Graham Greene

“I find only sadness and melancholy when I wade through the past, even when revisiting good memories. The past is gone; I can neither…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“There is titillating pleasure in looking back at the past and asking oneself, 'What would have happened if...' and substituting one chance occurrence for…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“...the reality of the days washed away the possibilities of the past, and time moved on.”

— Anonymous

“As her husband held her close, she could feel the pulse of other choices, other lives, opening up beneath her. Her past crackled behind…

— Dan Chaon

“And with a frenzied, frightened, anxious heart, she tumbled headfirst into the life she was destined to live. - Future”

— Abby Rosmarin

“She mourns for the future, as the past has taught her. And yet there is a rejoicing in her, persistent and unbidden as the…

— Wendell Berry

She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now,…

— Rosamunde Pilcher