#desire

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend. ↗

— Graham Greene

#friendship #heartbreak #love #friendship

The sight made her ache. How can I not touch you? she thought hopelessly, and then she was doing it, her fingers on his wrist. He didn't jump or even look at her, just stopped writing. Neither one of them moved, nothing moved, and the whole thing lasted three or four seconds at most, but when Pen took her hand away and started to breathe again, her chest hurt, as though she had been holding her breath for a very long time. ↗

— Marisa de los Santos

#friendship #love #friendship

The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#desire #determination #goals #greed #inspirational

It’s what you do in your free time that will set you free—or enslave you.
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— Jarod Kintz

#desire #diligence #enslave #free #free-time

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal. ↗

— John Berger

#love #life

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#meaning-of-life #satisfaction #life

Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone, to leave a mark. Writers just take those thoughts, feelings and desires and express them in such a way that the reader not only reads them but feels them as well. ↗

— Vicktor Alexander

#expression #feelings #legacy #life #writers

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#desire #life #nostalgia #seasons #spring

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough. ↗

— Aleksandar Hemon

#desire #life #life

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#disatisfaction #life #life