Lack Quotes

“To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

“The loss of an eager and unrestrained longing for someone or the lack of an unyielding desire of momentous incidents in life may blur the peculiar aura and the soothing tint of contingent encounters. ( “Twilight of desire “ )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings...but there’s something dead about it, something deserted.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four. The clouds were high and the swallows would be here for another month or so before they left for the south before they returned again next summer.”
― Ali Smith, The Whole Story and Other Stories

“There is a lie that acts like a virus within the mind of humanity. And that lie is, ‘There’s not enough good to go around. There’s lack and there’s limitation and there’s just not enough.’

The truth is that there’s more than enough good to go around. There is more than enough creative ideas. There is more than enough power. There is more than enough love. There’s more than enough joy. All of this begins to come through a mind that is aware of its own infinite nature.

There is enough for everyone. If you believe it, if you can see it, if you act from it, it will show up for you. That's the truth.”
― Michael Beckwith

“He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.”
― Kathy Acker, My Mother: Demonology

“Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Quest

“Love doesn't hurt
what hurts is the lack of love.”
― Augusto Branco

“The point of it all you see is to get rid of fear. Fear of death, fear of lack, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, all fears. - jessgoodvibesonly”
― Jessica Simmonds, A Spiritual Warrior's Path to Re-Enlightening

“You seem to define yourself quite a lot by what you
are not.”
― Roseanna M. White, On Wings of Devotion

“The experience of eros as lack alerts a person to the boundaries of himself, of other people, of things in general. It is the edge separating my tongue from the taste for which it longs that teaches me what an edge is.”
― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

“The absence of a parent plays the role of a parent.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Desperation only perpetuates itself.”
― Chris Courtney Martin, THE BOOK OF I.P.

“Love does not hurt,
what hurts is the lack of love.”
― Augusto Branco

“Anything you give to people you don't loose and you don't lack.”
― Chidiebere Orji Agbugba

“A lack of transparency may come to haunt Florida in the future.”
― Steven Magee

“There is a dangerous lack of honesty in Florida.”
― Steven Magee

“There was a dangerous lack of transparency at the Desoto Solar Farm.”
― Steven Magee

“The Christmas 2022 airline disaster can be traced back to a lack of government regulation of the industry.”
― Steven Magee

“What we lack is not an ideology or a doctrine that will save the world. What we lack is awareness of what we are, of what our true situation really is.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice

“Maybe it was the need to feel a stronger buzz, maybe it was built up residual fear and trauma from the accident, maybe it was the lack of other more adequate coping mechanisms, or maybe it was just the fact I’d trained myself to act on these habits for years and hardwired my brain for failure.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Without you, I don’t think what my life would be,
in a corner, without you, to hide, I would flee;
when you’re gone, the world is always just grey,
to see dawn without you, I never would pray…”
― Will Advise

“My sorrow in the nights of past I left,
all the sadness from your lack, at rest,
since you’re with me, lacking, the world is aglow,
back at folk advice I throw;
if I took advice, I’d about you forget,
I’d think of another, myself loose I’d let,
yet I wouldn’t always remain just this calm,
confined in myself, I’d hold me in my palm…”
― Will Advise, На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...

“It [anger] presents itself as a huge umbrella that shields other emotions such as frustration, confusion, embarrassment, lack, insecurity, inferiority, violation, resentment, sadness, and guilt. There is always a root to the real issue that you are too afraid to step into a vulnerable space and address.”
― Robin S. Baker, Esotericism With an Unconventional Soul: Exploring Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, and Mysticism

“How often is blindness the fear of vision rather than the lack of it?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough