Quotes on Begging

You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--

Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off—all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms… That’s how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears.

Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought."

In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.

I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.