lack

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
5e0dbd6	To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.	loss craving lack wish shadow need wholeness longing foreshadowing	Marilynne Robinson
0f1111a	Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings...but there's something dead about it, something deserted.	solitude sex fantasy love arms lack body need desire dead	Margaret Atwood
f6c663d	Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.	murder dream lack	Kathy Acker
581d8c7	Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.	present life lack purpose	John le Carré
c9fee13	they come different and the same with each it is different and the same with each the absence of love is different with each the absence of love is the same	love lack desire	Samuel Beckett
5d3552e	Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.	honesty song truth speak exist gap lack omission starling lie guilty	Robin Hobb

5e0dbd6

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.

loss craving lack wish shadow need wholeness longing foreshadowing

Marilynne Robinson

0f1111a

Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings...but there's something dead about it, something deserted.

solitude sex fantasy love arms lack body need desire dead

Margaret Atwood

f6c663d

Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.

murder dream lack

Kathy Acker

581d8c7

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

present life lack purpose

John le Carré

c9fee13

they come different and the same with each it is different and the same with each the absence of love is different with each the absence of love is the same

love lack desire

Samuel Beckett

5d3552e

Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.

honesty song truth speak exist gap lack omission starling lie guilty

Robin Hobb