#longing

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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.


Bertrand Russell


#knowledge #life #longing #love #mankind

He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.


Margaret Truman


#club #exclusive #most #pride #senate

She had been his talisman, his cure for the insecurities and worries that he knew deep down didn't really matter, but somehow had always managed to get the best of him.


Erik Tomblin


#ghosts #longing #love #soulmates #talisman

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.


Spalding Gray


#desire #despair #diary #longing #monologue

But no one can predict of a certainty what will happen. And none of it will change how I intend to spend the rest of my life. I will live it on my terms. And you... you can have all of me or nothing. I won't be an invalid any longer. Not even if it means losing you.


Lisa Kleypas


#longing #love #romance #change

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.


Samuel Beckett


#desire #longing #pain #suffering #time

...my body has become another country and I feel like an unemployed illegal alien how will I survive where I do not belong I belong with you


Patrick Califia-Rice


#change #longing #poem #change

As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship.


Sarah Dessen


#friendship #laughter #pretending #dating

Tell a wise person, or else keep silent, because the mass man will mock it right away. I praise what is truly alive, what longs to be burned to death. In the calm water of the love-nights, where you were begotten, where you have begotten, a strange feeling comes over you, when you see the silent candle burning. Now you are no longer caught in the obsession with darkness, and a desire for higher love-making sweeps you upward. Distance does not make you falter. Now, arriving in magic, flying, and finally, insane for the light, you are the butterfly and you are gone. And so long as you haven't experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#life #rebirth #death

Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am I supposed to live without you? It was not a matter of the body; his body would carry on as usual. The problem was located in the word how: he would live, but without Elspeth the flavour, the manner, the method of living were lost to him. He would have to relearn solitude.


Audrey Niffenegger


#longing #mourning #death