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#1

“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
― Carson McCullers

#2

“Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.”
― Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow

tags: lack, longing, mathematics, missing, negative-numbers

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#3

“I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.”
― Roger Zelazny, Isle of the Dead

tags: dignity, life, longing, poetry, pride, sense-of-wonder, stars

70 likes

#4

“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

tags: books, library, longing

3452 likes

#5

“Don't let's ask for the moon! We have the stars!”
― Olive Higgins Prouty , Now, Voyager

tags: longing, loss, love, moon, stars

53 likes

#6

“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.”
― Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

tags: absence, long-distance-love, longing, love, separation

573 likes

#7

“The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands and let the stars swirl and touch one another but they are so distant so very far apart that they cannot feel the warmth of each other even though they are made of burning.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

tags: longing, nature, stars

222 likes

#8

“Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.”
― Publius Ovidius Naso, The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters

196 likes

#9

“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

tags: desire, glove, hand-in-glove, longing, love, touch

595 likes

#10

“Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)”
― Charles Stross, Overtime

tags: geek, humour

76 likes

#11

“Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!”
― Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives

tags: humor

86 likes

#12

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sane employee in possession of his wits must be in want of a good manager.”
― Charles Stross, The Fuller Memorandum

tags: humour, paraphrased, tribute

29 likes

#13

“Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card.”
― Charles Stross, The Fuller Memorandum

tags: apple, consumerism, cult-of-jobs, d-d, d20, geek, humour, roleplaying-games, rpg, saving, saving-throw, shiny

18 likes

#14

“We use committees for all the ulterior purposes for which they might have been designed: diffusion of executive responsibility, plausible deniability, misdirection, providing the appearance of activity without the substance, and protecting the guilty.”
― Charles Stross, The Rhesus Chart

12 likes

#15

“That was what we call in the trade an Unscheduled Reality Excursion, usually abbreviated to ‘Oh fuck.’ ”
― Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives

22 likes

#16

“So you're saying, we've got a, a shoggoth gap?”
― Charles Stross, A Colder War

tags: arms-race, mad, mutually-assured-destruction, shoggoth

6 likes

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