#long

I found that I missed him the more he was absent from my life, and the more I missed him, the more I loved him. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#long-distance-relationships #life

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#anomie #belonging #the-true-believer #life

Sometimes in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself. ↗

— Katherine Sharp

#journey-of-life #long-journey #life

Of course he had committed forgery;--of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#carbury #crumb #hurtle #longstaffe #montague

Distance is nothing when you are something. ↗

— Zarry Hendrik

#long-distance #love #life

The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning. ↗

— Peter Høeg

#belief #bridges #certainty #fear #life

I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals. ↗

— Salvador Plascencia

#love #sadness #love

She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer. ↗

— T.H. White

#longing #love #pain #sorrow #unrequited-love

Dr Horrible: Hey, this is weird. I ordered one frozen yogurt and they gave me two. You don’t happen to like frozen yogurt do you? Penny: I love it! Dr Horrible: You’re kidding! What a crazy, random happenstance! ↗

— Joss Whedon

#humour #random #love

[I]t doesn’t matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don’t know who you are, or if you’ve forgotten or misplaced her, then you’ll always feel as if you don’t belong. Anywhere. (xiii) ↗

— Sarah Breathnach

#life #love #place #self-awareness #self-knowledge