“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
“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
Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“To know if I'm alone in my longing, a lighthouse signaling to an empty sea.” — Colleen Oakley 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
Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings. — Nancy Etcoff 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
All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow, All the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that… — Thomas Campion Copy Share Image
Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined:… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we credit ourselves with a longing to be in some distant spot, whereas, in truth, we are only longing to have… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to… — Martine Leavitt Copy Share Image
God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do… — Robert Collyer Copy Share Image
“And in the background of Early's story was her voice. Her soul. Her sadness and longing. Because when it's raining, it's always… — Clare Vanderpool Copy Share Image
Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and… — Homer Copy Share Image
So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
The bible never belittles disappointment, but it does add one key word: temporary - What we feel now, we will not always… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children. And he said: Your children are… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
