“All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.
Remembered line from a long-
forgotten poem”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
Variant: All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Source: Mad Love
“All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.
Remembered line from a long-
forgotten poem”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
“My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001) American aviator and author
Source: The Crucible (1953)
Context: Danforth: Do you mean to deny this confession when you are free?
Proctor: I mean to deny nothing!
Danforth: Then explain to me, Mr. Proctor, why you will not let —
Proctor: [With the cry of his whole soul] Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!
“In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.”
Loung Ung (1970) American academic
Source: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist