That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, To have no home in the present. And these are wishes: gentle… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Here I sit mesmerized by the sight of something I never thought I would see in the light. So my dream was… — Joseph Carlson Copy Share Image
More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“She looked out across the water and allowed the feeling of longing to wash over her, spill into the crevices of her… — Elizabeth Fama Copy Share Image
Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
“But sometimes, I have a great longing to hear something different from praise, for my soul sickens of too sweet a diet.… — John Beevers Copy Share Image
This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
We are becoming so fickle and self involved. Always looking for the next best thing - especially when it comes to people.… — Whitney Wolfe Herd Copy Share Image
Why does the longing for love have to be so acute, like a desperate thirst? Is it because love is wanting to… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“You stole my heart the night we met, when you sang that ridiculous song and dared me not to laugh. and every… — Julianne Donaldson Copy Share Image
Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets,… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
When meditation makes you realize that you have so many limitations of your own and they are all created by you, the… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things,… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to stories about people who feel themselves outside of society, kind of start out with a longing to be part… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
For me, the experience of being in other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Man has invented and discovered so many amazing things in this world, But one thing no one has been able to do… — Reshma Kassam Copy Share Image
I don't have any huge desire to show you all that I'm not tough and strong, that I'm all feminine and soft.… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
But when he tried, he was denied. You do not have permission the site cried. How will our worlds collide if my… — Joseph Carlson Copy Share Image
“I think it delightful too," I said; "but I am sad just because of the beauty of it all. All is so… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What is your ambition in life today? Is it to get rich? Is it to make a name for yourself? Is it… — J. Vernon McGee Copy Share Image
I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not… — S. Ansky Copy Share Image
I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“I try to remember when time's measure painfully chafes, for instance when autumn flares out at the last, boisterous and like us… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“If I had one night, I'd hold you in my arms, Find redemption, no more contention, Keeping you close. Too long, years… — Liza M. Wiemer Copy Share Image
If I had any advice to give to anybody, it would be record your parents talking so that, when you're longing to… — Nancy Sinatra Copy Share Image
“The memory still made her blush, though in the many months since then, the thrill in her heart had been replaced entirely… — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
People are fretful about lifestyle retailing because the idea that anyone's immortal soul and deepest longings can be quite so readily anticipated… — Peter York Copy Share Image
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between… — Izumi Shikibu Copy Share Image
