He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and the leaves of the trees rustling against them, and he heard small changes in the grass. These little noises of footsteps and soft-fringed wing-beats and stealthy bellies drawn over the grass blades or rattling against the bracken at first frightened or interested him, so that he moved to see what they were (but never saw), then soothed him, so that he no longer cared to see what they were but trusted them to be themselves, and finally left him altogether as he swam down deeper and deeper, nuzzling into the scented turf, into the warm ground, into the unending waters under the earth.
T.H. WhiteTags: you do on tombstone want what your
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
VoltaireTags: evil work greed need boredom labor vice want weariness
I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.
Richard Paul EvansI don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?
Neil GaimanIf I have you for a day, I'll want you for a week. If I have you for a week, I'll want you for another week.
Michael SteinAlice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.
Ann BrasharesTags: want
Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?
Chuck PalahniukTags: consumerism lullaby angst dissatisfaction want palahniuk more
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
Eric HofferTags: frustration desire need want
There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.
Toba BetaTags: life words soul secret waiting want written wanting baby newborn
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