#longing

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The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.


Fernando Pessoa


#longing #pain #regret #yearning #consciousness

Dorian used to watch you like a starving man who wants meat. Now he looks at you like he wants seconds.


Richelle Mead


#eugenie #longing #lust #thorn-queen #lust

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.


Carson McCullers


#nostalgia #nostalgia

If your heart is broken, do you have a phantom heart?


Damon Suede


#gay-romance #longing #breakups

Witch Baby wanted to ask Ping how to find her Jah-Love angel. She knew Raphael was not him, even though Raphael had the right eyes and smile and name. She knew how he looked--the angel in her dream--but she didn't know how to find him. Should she roller-skate through the streets in the evenings when the streetlights flicker on? Should she stow away to Jamaica on a cruise ship and search for him in the rain forests and along the beaches? Would he come to her? Was he waiting, dreaming of her in the same way she waited and dreamed?


Francesca Lia Block


#love #romance #unrequited #dreams

Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a farmhouse. In an instant it's sucked back into the darkness behind and vanishes. But if you close your eyes, that point of light stays with you, just barely for a few moments.


Haruki Murakami


#longing #love #love

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.


Saul Bellow


#beings #broader #coherent #comprehensive #flexible

It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little things in life like belonging. A sense of belonging is a big thing today.


James Caan


#appreciate #belonging #big #big thing #how

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.


Alfred de Vigny


#after #capacity #chain #could #events

We clean our plates, yet we’re still famished—starving for something other than food.


Kate Wicker


#eating-disoders #hunger #longing #soul #starving