#gnaws

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us. ↗

— Carl Jung

#being #dealing #glows #gnaws #heart

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. ↗

— Richard Wright

#darkness #echo #fight #gnaws #how

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#against #away #else #everything #gnaws

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#discrimination #dominating #every #gnaws #inferiority

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#discontent #does #enough #fed #fields

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#gnaws #hearts #i #i love #know