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.	craving foreshadowing lack longing loss need shadow wholeness wish	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.	arms body dead desire fantasy lack love need sex solitude	Margaret Atwood
f6c663d	Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.	dream lack murder	Kathy Acker
581d8c7	Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.	lack life present 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	desire lack love	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.	exist gap guilty honesty lack lie omission song speak starling truth	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.

craving foreshadowing lack longing loss need shadow wholeness wish

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.

arms body dead desire fantasy lack love need sex solitude

Margaret Atwood

f6c663d

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

dream lack murder

Kathy Acker

581d8c7

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

lack life present 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

desire lack love

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.

exist gap guilty honesty lack lie omission song speak starling truth

Robin Hobb