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“I hung a picture of him above my bed and learned by hand the internal workings of the female combustion engine.”

Book:Small Town Demons

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“At moments when Herman fantasized about a new metaphysics, or even a new religion, he based everything on the attraction of the sexes. In the beginning was lust. The godly, as well as the human, principle is desire. Gravity, light, magnetism, thought may be aspects of the same universal longing. Suffering, emptiness, darkness are nothing more than interruptions of a cosmic orgasm that grows forever in intensity...”

Life Philosophy Religion Universe Sex Longing

Book:Enemies: A Love Story

Source: Enemies: A Love Story

“There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the feathers of birds -- is transformed into the rocks that make the riverbed. If only I could tear out my heart and hurl it into the current, then my pain and longing would be over, and I could finally forget.”

Pain Forget Longing Legend Paulo Coelho River Piedra

Book:By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“The ghosts that exert the most power in people’s lives-at least, the people I know–tend to be of their own making, and consist of equal parts regret and old fears and just plain missing somebody.”

Regret Horror Longing Ghosts Glen Hirshberg Cemetery Dance Interview

Author:Glen Hirshberg

“The tides rolled up to crash against the shore while we sat feet from one another with the remnants of all we’d left unsaid driving us apart.”

Romance Ocean Longing Tides Waves Unsaid Words Driving Apart

Book:By the Sea

Source: By the Sea

“It is poetic and lyrical; words that spill forth like cool waters into the dusty dry rock bed of the Soul desiring love. It has been said that I’ve lived in the desert all my life and do not know what it means to be wet.”

Soul Longing Desert Lyrical

Book:Liquid Me: Poetry and Prose

Source: Liquid Me: Poetry and Prose

“This pursuit of unavailable distant people has oedipal roots. … fearing the consequences, they make certain that they fail at the attempt.” ―Distancing, Kantor (p.115)”

Love Passion Psychology Longing Lust Freud Oedipus Kantor

Author:Kantor

“…suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered, song of frustrated want, silence after desire. It can be the test of the self falling short, constrained, distorted, disturbed or rebuffed, the vacuum left by longing, call without an answer.”

Art Suffering Longing Modern World Oppenheimer

Book:Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

Source: Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

“I had this theory. It was based loosely on the unremarkable observation that the old are always looking back with longing while the young, with the same longing, look ahead. One man remembers what the other imagines.”

Young Longing Memory Old

Book:The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

Source: The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

“I wanted desperately to be part of our pack; I felt a hole inside myself where my pack should have been.”

Sadness Longing Emptiness Pack Ashling

Book:Bloodmark

Source: Bloodmark

“Pinch of pain gives you tear! Repeat! Pinch of pain gives you strength! Repeat! A pinch of pain gives you strength to overcome the big pain.”

Pain Quotes Strength Tears Adversity Painful Memories Repeat Tears Quotes Repeating The Past

Author:Ar. Harpreet Singh

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