Desire Quote by Stephen Dunn

“I couldn’t stand to be in my own skin and desperately wished I had somewhere to go or something to do.”

— M.L. Gardner

“He didn't understand how sadness came so easily to people. For him it was like a pile of rocks that had to be moved…

— Nell Freudenberger

“But he holds me so tightly that for a moment, the emotions are at bay. The sadness and fear, the regret and the loathing.…

— Mary Kubica

“Waiting, he thought, was the most miserable condition a man could find himself in. His whole life, he had been waiting for one thing…

— Paul Russell

“Your sadness doesn’t make you less of a human being. In fact, it makes you more. More expansive. More connected. Painfully beautiful. Raw. Open.…

— Panache Desai

“When I turned back, he was already walking away. It was a brilliantly clear day, not a cloud in sight, and yet the sun…

— Jessica Shirvington

“I was moving and breathing but everything else had become so slow. I felt that I was trapped inside a still landscape, one of…

— Tracy Emin

“How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.”

— Allegra Goodman

“He'd read that once in everyone's life there was somebody who touched a spot so deep, so precious, that the mind always retreated, in…

— Anonymous

“For the first time in years the tears were streaming down his face. But they were for himself now. He did not care about…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“We fell together onto the grass. We were velvet and water and arms and lips, and we were no one, and that was what…

— Karen E. Bender

“But the longing within him had grown even greater, the overpowering need to be alone. Locked in an empty room, entirely unwitnessed, silent and…

— Philip K. Dick