aching desire Quotes

There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical connotations; C.S. Lewis defined it as the 'inconsolable longing' in the human heart for 'we know not what'. It seems rather German to be able to specify the unspecifiable. The longing for something - or, in our case, for someone.

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

Perfect little dream, The kind that hurts the most.

She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.

More than anything, the journal wanted. It wanted more than it could hold, more than words could describe, more than diagrams could illustrate. Longing burst from the pages, in every frantic line and every hectic sketch and every dark-printed definition. There was something pained and melancholy about it.

Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

Grace: The idea was immediately unbearable, only because I wanted it to be true so badly it hurt

Oh, injurious love, that respites me a life, whose very comfort is still a dying horror