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  • #1
    Fernando Pessoa
    “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

  • #2
    Robert Goolrick
    “If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.”
    Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

  • #3
    David Foster Wallace
    “It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #4
    Stephanie Laurens
    “Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be.”
    Stephanie Laurens, A Rogue's Proposal

  • #5
    Homer
    “…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
    Homer, The Iliad

  • #6
    William Shakespeare
    “See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
    O, that I were a glove upon that hand
    That I might touch that cheek!”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • #7
    George Eliot
    “It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.”
    George Eliot

  • #8
    Kahlil Gibran
    “There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.”
    Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

  • #9
    Paul Simon
    “Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.”
    Paul Simon

  • #10
    Michael Ondaatje
    “We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.”
    Michael Ondaatje, The Cat's Table

  • #11
    Samuel Beckett
    “It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.”
    Samuel Beckett

  • #12
    Anthony De Sa
    “The Portuguese call it saudade: a longing for something so indefinite as to be indefinable. Love affairs, miseries of life, the way things were, people already dead, those who left and the ocean that tossed them on the shores of a different land — all things born of the soul that can only be felt.”
    Anthony De Sa, Barnacle Love

  • #13
    Carson McCullers
    “I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.”
    Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

  • #14
    Michele Young-Stone
    “She'd been in love with the man, and love is a scary thing. If not reciprocated, it can turn a person into a monster.”
    Michele Young-Stone, The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors

  • #15
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #16
    Coco Chanel
    “It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.”
    Coco Chanel

  • #17
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

  • #18
    Jodi Picoult
    “You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.”
    Jodi Picoult, Mercy

  • #19
    Bette Midler
    “The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
    Bette Midler

  • #20
    Carrie Fisher
    “Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ”
    Carrie Fisher

  • #21
    Brynn Myers
    “Live your life. The reset button has been pushed.”
    Brynn Myers, The Echoed Life of Jorja Graham



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