Alyanna Villanueva

898 Quotes
View Tags View People

898 quotes curated by Alyanna Villanueva:

“I did not love you out of boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.”
— Alessandro Baricco, Ocean Sea
Tagged: Love, Happiness
“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Tagged: Change
“Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.”
— Egon Schiele, I, Eternal Child
Tagged: Body Image, Confidence
“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
— Allen Ginsberg, The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems
Tagged: Failure, Control
“I stand on a ledge in hell
still howling for our love.”
— Erica Jong, Letter to My Lover After Seven Years
Tagged: Love, Time
“Your absence has gone through me

Like thread through a needle.

Everything I do is stitched with its colour.”
— W.S. Merwin, Separation
Tagged: Heartbreak, hurt
“To love is to give what one does not have to another who does not desire it.”
— Jacques Lacan, Untitled
Tagged: Loving
“Are people so unhappy when they love?’
‘Yes, Christine when they love and are not sure of being loved.”
— Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
Tagged: Love
“Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? … The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.”
— Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow
Tagged: Longing
“Mark me like a passage from your favorite book, then open me there again and again.”
— Tammy Brewer, Literary Sexts
Tagged: Sex