I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Like any / unloved thing, I don’t know if I’m real / when I’m not being touched.” — Natalie Wee Copy Share Image
“A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.” — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
“You think embracing the longing while waiting for the right man is impossible? Well obviously you didn't get the memo.” — Osayi Osar-Emokpae Copy Share Image
I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing. — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I still remember the days when you here with me. But I miss you even more. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all have that incomplete love story hidden inside our hearts. Which still sometimes makes a reason for our sleepless nights! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This pursuit of unavailable distant people has oedipal roots. … fearing the consequences, they make certain that they fail at the attempt.”… — Kantor Copy Share Image
“Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky."… — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
One day you'll miss me so much when I'm gone. You'll feel the pain that I have been feeling for a long… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me.… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
“... but there lies a pain and longing in his eyes, a look of horror as he sees a batlike form crawl… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“She had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“I could wish to spy the nakedness of their hearts, and through the different disguises of customs, climates, and religion, find out… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Only a handful of Germans in the Reich had the slightest conception of the eternal and merciless struggle for the German language,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
I miss the way you made me smile when I was broken. I miss the way you made me feel like I… — Lacey Aleshia Turner Copy Share Image
Consider the idea of a God who is essentially sadness and longing, yearning to reveal himself, to know himself through a being… — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
“Moderation and limitation represent the highest with regard to human strivings. If also an infinite longing never abandons the person because he… — Helmuth Plessner Copy Share Image
“All of the love and the longing a body can contain was spun into not more than two and a half minutes… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Well, I had often pondered all this, not without an intense longing sometimes to turn to and do something real for once,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“And it seemed to me that longing was everything, longing is all we are.” — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“In making God our buddy, we find Him nice for cuddling but not much help when the hurricane comes. UNFULFILLED LONGING FOR” — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“I know you’re thinking about him and I know you miss him. I can feel your longing,” he said softly. ~ Nathan” — Jennifer Hines Copy Share Image
The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers. — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I could do it, you know... But why deny the Dementors? They're so longing to see you. — Remus Lupin Copy Share Image
“I really should be studying now, but you're much more important to me than a .50 calibre machine gun.” — Kara Martinelli Copy Share Image
The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering expresses the great natural potential of mind. — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Copy Share Image
A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals. — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
Believe me, I'm not longing for the days when I was going to become a lawyer. Especially come tax time. — Cris Collinsworth Copy Share Image
Goodbyes are hard. It may be hard for the person leaving, but it's always harder for the one left behind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I keep myself busy with the things to do but every time I pause I still think of you — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“I know that hunger for self-isolation, it eats u up. Disconnecting yourself from external world and longing to disappear.” — Shreya Gupta Copy Share Image
All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake. — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
