Desiderium Longing Quotes & Sayings

We came to know that love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it. — Michael D. O'Brien

After consciously enduring a twelve-inch knitting needle navigated into the unseen recesses of my pelvis and almost passing out at the sensation of my hip inflating with fluid and somehow clinging to my sanity through the hour-long, migraine-inducing blare of the imaging contraption, which resembled a compact wind tunnel, possessed the amplification capability of a Marshall stack, and pushed my patience beyond the limits of superhuman endurance, I was
informed by my orthopedist that the image of my still-smoldering hip had revealed, and I quote, "just a little inflammation." In the world of orthopedic medicine, "a little inflammation" apparently qualifies as sound diagnosis. — Daniel Stern

To photograph reality is to photograph nothing. — Duane Michals

It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God's sight than to appear lovely to man's eyes but lame to God's. — Oswald Chambers

don't control things, things will sure as hell control you. Before — Charles Alverson

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer. — Joseph O'Neill

Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know. — Josef Pieper