"I lose hope when the desire for life awakens within me; but I regain it whenever the longing for death comes upon me."

-- Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

#Desire Quotes #Longing Quotes

“Whatever your eye falls on. For it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye. The things of this world draw us where we need to go.”
“But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.”
“It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.”

Source : Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.405, Delphi Classics
“The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.”
“Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.”
“With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.”
“In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.”
“In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.”

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