“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Everyday I tell myself I need to get over you, But every night I find myself thinking about how much I want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“I dread that it may be only a longing for annihilation. No person who has seen his own face plain can want… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“She inhabited a world from which I was excluded, and she had left me in an immense empty space.” — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
If we will deny the longing of love, we will lose even the last address of the stranger inside us. — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“He never understood until now that being someone's lover requires longing, a painful wait that turns small moments into several eternities.” — Natalia Sylvester Copy Share Image
I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it… — Jon Crosby Copy Share Image
... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
“I love you with an awful intensity. Sometimes when I just sit in a trance staring at a piece of paper, pen… — Marlene Wagman-Geller Copy Share Image
I don't know how you say good-bye to whom and what you love. I don't know a painless way to do it,… — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Communism is an aspiration, an aspiration is an ideal, a dream, a longing of something that would be perfect, but hard to… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
“There is a hunger in every human heart, which nothing can satisfy or appease — a hunger for something more true than… — G. de Purucker Copy Share Image
“You once shared with me the essence of love: to prioritize another's happiness and fulfilment. Today, I honour that wisdom by choosing… — Shahid Hussain Raja Copy Share Image
“In truth isn't it a waiting that never ends like the chasm between the cycles of the world Between separation and union… — Tishani Doshi Copy Share Image
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“When I have not rage or sorrow, and you depart from me, then I am most afraid. When the belly is full,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Out of… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Theres a difference between what we long for, what we settle for, and who we are meant for. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound. — Elizabeth Ann Seton Copy Share Image
“...that breath of relief that there is someone in the world, finally, who understands what hurts you.” — Lysley Tenorio Copy Share Image
“Last night, lost in spaces between star—bays and lakes of clouds, I tossed and turned looking for you” — john j geddes Copy Share Image
“We'd had small lives, populated by a longing for something more substantial than dirt roads and small dreams.” — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings. — Nancy Etcoff Copy Share Image
The first half of life is spent in longing for the second - the second half in regretting the first. — French Proverb Copy Share Image
When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“As much longing there is for the worldly pleasure of five senses, that much less is the spiritual development.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Maybe I'd ignored longing so many times through the years until eventually I'd just stopped feeling it.” — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
You have no idea how hard it is to force myself to stop thinking about you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Let’s call my mood melancholy; let’s call it remembrance. Or maybe let’s call it longing. Yes, let’s call it longing instead.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
