The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. Iris Murdoch

We can only learn to love by loving. Iris Murdoch

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. Anais Nin

Most of us can manage no more than a narrow little obsession with a particular human who we mistakenly imagine can satisfy our gargantuan yearning for the real, primordial thing. Rob Brezsny