Desire Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Many were the tears shed by them in their last adieus to a place so much beloved. "Dear, dear Norland!" said Marianne, as she…

— Jane Austen

“Sadness pulses out of us as we walk. I almost expect the trees to lower their branches when we pass, the stars to hand…

— Jandy Nelson

“To salve the pains of consciousness, some people anesthetize themselves with sunny thoughts. But not everyone can follow their lead, above all not those…

— Thomas Ligotti

I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they…

— May Sarton

“Reluctance Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view And looked…

— Robert Frost

People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.

— Veronica Roth

“Grief lingers, and the ache of loss; those things don't change. But seeping into every leaf, a little guilty burns away each autumn, and…

— Sean Stewart

The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it…

— Anonymous

i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people

— Marge Piercy

“Contrary to what a lot of people believe (or hope), comfort doesn’t take the pain away. Comfort slides in beside the pain, pulling up…

— Peggy Haymes

“My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the…

— John Keats

“...nothing is more blissful than to occupy the heights effectively fortified by the teaching of the wise, tranquil sanctuaries from which you can look…

— Lucretius