Quotes About Longing

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

Humans are lonely creators. Humans always desire and yearn for others. Humans thirst for ambitions. When things don't go their way, they start thirsting for it even more.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.

When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

desire is a beast that must be fed!

My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.

It's so much better to desire than to have.

People hunger for more attention. Full attention will be the aphrodisiac of the future.

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]

Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable.

We pursue that which retreats from us.