“There is a difference between the two. It’s a discreet longing—an added bit of effort—that turns a hug into a hold.” — Zimmer, Kristen Copy Share Image
Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive. — Wendy Wright Copy Share Image
The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own. — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
I want to move on, but somewhere in my heart still misses you being here. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am pinned to my seat with pity and horror and a weird, twisted affection laced with longing and traces of lust.” — Michelle Knudsen Copy Share Image
“No secrets, no longing, no desperate hoping Just reach out and grab from a world cracked open.” — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“A person's needs are met, and his appetite subsides. A person's wants are met, and his thirst swells greedily without end.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I am longing to show him my love, but not by doing what is wrong” — Gillian Shields Copy Share Image
Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
People marry with a deep longing that their partner will tend to their wounds, not throw salt in them. Honor your partner's… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
You might not be with me right now but my each and every heart beat says your name...Every time my smile tells… — Jazel Copy Share Image
“You don’t really have idea about any of that olden-days stuff, do you?” He’s sure he can feel her smiling against his… — Charlotte Stein Copy Share Image
All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“We are captivated by the feminine shadow of the self we might have been; in my case by that counterpart of the… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“It isn't any particular person I want to lie down with and make my own. It isn't anybody at all. It is… — Merri Lisa Johnson Copy Share Image
“Longing for women other than your wife is not the root cause of infidelity” — Betsy Wise Copy Share Image
“What am I guilty of, then? Of having loved and continuing to love- no, not of loving: of longing.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
I hate having to say goodbye at the end of the day when all I want to do is be with you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Once, long ago, I heard the mermaids singing, but I do not think they will sing to me now.” — Toby R. Beeny Copy Share Image
I wish that you were here or I were there or me and you we anywhere TOGETHER. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What did I know of loving anything, beyond a longing, beyond being biased in one woman's direction.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland. — Eduard Shevardnadze Copy Share Image
“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.” — Roger de Bussy-Rabutin Copy Share Image
“drunk on dreams aged in memory’s casks the soul gets what the heart wants” — John C. Waugh Copy Share Image
We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad… — Tessa Afshar Copy Share Image
The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing... — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share Image
The very life within you is longing to be joyful because joyfulness is the nature of the source of creation. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to? — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
