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1 " Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me! "
― Fernando Pessoa , The Book of Disquiet
2 " So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the shadowy solitude my longing for light grew so frantic that I could rest no more, and I lifted entreating hands to the single black ruined tower that reached above the forest into the unknown outer sky. And at last I resolved to scale that tower, fall through I might; since it were better to glimpse the sky and perish, than to live without even beholding day. "
― H.P. Lovecraft , The Outsider
3 " But I will confess that I began as an astronomer—a liking for bright flashes, vast distances, unreachable things, a hand stretched always toward the furthest limit— and that my longing for you has not taken me very far from that original desire to inscribe a comet’s orbit around the walls of our city, to gently stroke the surface of the stars. "
― Troy Jollimore
4 " To quench my longing I bent me low By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow In that magical wood in the land of sleep. "
― Sarojini Naidu
5 " Yet my longing for her was like a bad cold that had hung on for years despite my conviction that I was sure to get over it at any moment. "
― Donna Tartt , The Secret History
6 " They should not clench their fists,it’s my longing that’s drawing me near to them;they should not stand there full of rage,my longing is timidly drawing near to them;they should not be ready to pounce like vicious dogs,as if they wanted to tear my longing to shreds;they should not threaten with broad sleeves,that pains my longing.Why have they suddenly changed?As great and deep is my longing.No matter how difficult, no matter how menacing:I must reach them and I’m already there. "
― Robert Walser , Oppressive Light: Selected Poems by Robert Walser
