“Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who’d be kind to me. That’s what people really want, if they’re telling the truth.”— Doris Lessing, amazon.com
“He used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”— Sigmund Freud, amazon.com
“I had two longings and one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone.”— Jean Rhys, amazon.com
“Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.”— Geoff Dyer, theparisreview.tumblr.com
“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”— Jess C Scott, amazon.com
“All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged gla…”— Nikos Kazantzakis, amazon.com
“Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.”— P.C. Cast, amazon.com
“I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch. The time I annihilated while I waited like a man doing a life sentence. I need you like life needs life. I want you bad like a…”— Henry Rollins, amazon.com
“The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“The human race has a yearning to explore. That’s part of our biological and psychological makeup.”— Kip Thorne, theguardian.com
“I think a lot of people want to be someone, but we are scared that if we try, we won’t be as good as everyone imagines we could be.”— Ava Dellaira, amazon.com
“Kisses are like tears, the only real ones are the ones you can’t hold back.”— Pamela Ann, amazon.com