Quote for Today: Lionel Shriver
A lot of people get so hung up on what they can’t have that they don’t think for a second about whether they really want it. ―Lionel Shriver, Checker and …
Quote for Today: Hope Jahren
After scientists broke open the coat of a lotus seed (Nelumbo nucifera) and coddled the embryo into growth, they kept the empty husk. When they radiocarbon-dated this discarded outer shell, …
Quote for Today: Fernando Pessoa
The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd–The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the …
Quote for Today: Edith Södergran
In far-off lands stand the great stones on which my thoughts rest. It was a foreigner who wrote the strange words on the hard board that is called my soul. …
Quote for Today: Sylvia Plath
I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; …
Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when he had followed his longing; but only a …
Quote for Today: Peter Høeg
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. …
Quote for Today: Milan Kundera
The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. ―Milan Kundera, Ignorance