When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you… — Danica Patrick Copy Share Image
What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“I had looked into the distance so long that I hadn't seen what was near at hand. If we don't cherish those… — Janice Clark Copy Share Image
“It is a longing so intense that it creates what it desires, it cannot endure any touch of correction; it is, as… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“Her bond with the couple who raised her is fierce and beyond questioning. She cannot name the sensation of losing them as… — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In the three minutes it takes the song to play I'm caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly… — Christos Tsiolkas Copy Share Image
“Now we are longtime outcasts, flying through the emptiness of time in a straight line. Yet somewhere deep down a thin thread… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahead of me as… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Patti Callahan Henry’s THE STORIES WE TELL is a lyrical exploration of love and longing, secrets and suspicion, family and friendship, all… — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
Any guy, even imaginary, would just feel like second best. Second best to what? I don't even have an image of the… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
“ The Lake Isle of Innisfree I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Something shifts in my chest, and a longing pulls at the very core of me. I want that: the closeness, the overwhelming… — Talli Roland Copy Share Image
There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“Marco opened the walkway gate just as a sprightly grey lizard skittered across the stone path. A bougainvillea vine laden with a… — Margarita Barresi Copy Share Image
The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
“I shall know my home by its indelible mark upon my longing, for it is the longing that is the plate on… — John Pritchard Copy Share Image
What is the gospel according to Jesus? Simply this: that the love we all long for in our innermost heart is already… — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
“I never will be sober while desire guides me, lured by darkness to distant light, where sky gods celebrate those who love night glory, who dare once… — Don Hynes Copy Share Image
From the world’s perspective, there are many places you can go to find comfort. But there is only one place you will… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
My body is trembling inside and it's her everything I'm yearning for. Her soft skin brushing against my fingertips, the curves of… — Michael Kilby Copy Share Image
“I’m always soft for you, that’s the problem. You could come knocking on my door five years from now and I would… — Azra T Copy Share Image
“There I was, cold, isolated and desperate for something I knew I couldn't have. A solution. A remedy. Anything. ...I hated it.… — Brian Krans Copy Share Image
Because he learned about happiness, he feels lonely for the first time. And because he knows unhappiness, he understands happiness for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on… — Clementine Paddleford Copy Share Image
What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities,… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
“I truly missed my parents. I wanted to miss them. It was the only way I could love them, a crazy cocktail… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say! Please, universal soul,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
In dreams, through longings, we can see— All latent in the dust of gold These forests that perhaps could be— But that… — Lucian Blaga Copy Share Image
The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
“Some part of me remembers what snow is, but this is the first time my new mind has seen it. It softens… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second,… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
