Toni Morrison Quotes

I just want pieces of the world.

If I like something, I then have to study every single aspect of it to find out if there's more things that I would like, and it's just this weird hunger to want more. I always feel like there's so much that exists.

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

I'm always interested in something that's missing.

We yearn for the beautiful, the unknown, and the mysterious.

I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.

Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.

The heavy red roses smoldering in the foggy morning, blood-colored and uninhibited, made me greedy, and tempted me powerfully to steal one--I asked the prices merely so I could come as near them as possible.

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!

In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.

Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

Curiosity urges you on-driving force.

Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.

Energy and curiosity are the lifeblood of universities; the desire to find out, to uncover, to dig deeper, to puzzle out obscurities, is the spirit of the university, and it is a channelling of that unresting curiosity that holds mankind together.

Beautiful women are the torment of my existence.

I think a part of evolution is the desire to know yourself, and know the world you live in, and discover everything you can about the world you live in. That world can be the microcosm of your own emotions, or a society, or the cosmos. There's this constant desire for knowledge.

When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.

Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

Well I'm living in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line. Beauty walks a razor's edge...someday I'll make it mine.

I have a natural curiosity about things, in general. I'm constantly trying to find out how things work and how I can put them back together again, and why they work that way. The natural world is all around us.

Eventually she came. She appeared suddenly, exactly like she'd done that day- she stepped into the sunshine, she jumped, she laughed and threw her head back, so her long ponytail nearly grazed the waistband of her jeans. After that, I couldn't think about anything else. The mole on the inside of her right elbow, like a dark blot of ink. The way she ripped her nails to shreds when she was nervous. Her eyes, deep as a promise. Her stomach, pale and soft and gorgeous, and the tiny dark cavity of her belly button. I nearly went crazy.

Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.