James Branch Cabell Quotes

We love only what we do not wholly possess.

They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.

It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.

We all desire things that we believe we cannot have, and so my films reflect that again and again. The mystery must be solved, the goal attained.

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.

If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.

In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.

Seek and Hide: the Lover gazes at the Beloved. The Beloved looks away. The Beloved turns and looks at the Lover. The Lover runs away.

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

God only knows how much I'd love you if you let me, but I can't break through at all.

It was not in me It came and went I wanted to hold it It was held by wine (I no longer know what it was)

It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.

For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss.

I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked her if she liked fallen trees, she went home with her father, the center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me, I needed to see her again, I couldn't explain my need to myself, and that's why it was such a beautiful need, there's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

"Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you! All I want is you." "I know the feeling."

He never hurries. He never shows his cards. He always hangs up first....Like when we first started talking on the phone, he would always be the one who got off first. When we kissed, he always pulled away first. He always kept me just on the edge of crazy. Feeling like I wanted him too much, which just made me want him more....[It was] excruciating and wonderful. It feels good to want something that bad. I thought about him the way you think about dinner when you haven't eaten for a day and a half. Like you'd sell your soul for it.

I've wanted to be with you when I didn't have the right to.

I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put your hand in the water to reach for a sea urchin or a sea shell, and the thing desired never quite lies where you had lined it up to be. The same is true of love. In prospect or contemplation, love is where it seems to be. Reach in to lift it out and your hand misses

His eyes burned violet - not with anger but with intense desire. The kind of look that made you love a person so much, you missed him even when he was standing right in front of you.

Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep

When someone covets something they desire and lust over it.Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem.

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.