The greatest tales, well told, awaken the fears and longings of the listeners. Each man hears a different story. Each is touched… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
I hate it when I can't stop thinking about that one person, and deep down inside, I know they probably haven't thought… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you're around someone so much, for so long, they become a part of you, and when they go away, you don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you lose a child in an accident as I did, it's final - you're not caught in this longing for him,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
Most people write off their longing for friends and family as so many losses in their lives, when they should count the… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
For a while, I was feeling so creative in motherhood that I had no longing to work. I felt that my children… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
“His need was to exist, and to move onwards at the greatest possible risk, and with maximum of privation. If the absolutely… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I'm continually wrestling with the idea that there are certain things in this world that simply don't fit. The idea that I… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
This sense of being made in God's image calls us all constantly to look for it in others and to do what… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
“Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Pain is a holy angel who shows us treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him men and women have become… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
That longing in the heart of a woman to share life together as a great adventure-that comes straight from the heart of… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
“On the train I saw that world passing my window. It was when I came to see it was I who was… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Though we had to part, though we could never be together again. We had no regrets. Even if he returned to his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
“It was as if she had thought him into existence again, as if her mind were a flask into which had been… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Well, there's nothing more heartbreaking in life than beauty. And so much of that beauty stems from the longing we feel by… — Celine Song Copy Share Image
There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
There is a human longing to go back to other times. We all know how when we were children we asked our… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that any persons may attempt to unite kindred spirits, but, whatever their hopes and longings, none have the… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
That moment where you're thinking of someone and you start laughing or smiling out of no where and when someone asks you… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
“It isnt for want of something to say-- something to tell you-- something you should know-- but to detain you-- keep you… — Cid Corman Copy Share Image
Your heart, your love, and the memories of us. I will hold onto it as long as I have to, not just… — Vincent Madriaga Copy Share Image
“We can only come to terms with our own place in the world by compassionately commiserating with the pang of longing that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
At the core of my work there is this eternal back-and-forth between being confined to one's own individuality and that longing to… — Beat Streuli Copy Share Image
I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
“I slept in the grip of that love, comforted, thinking I should forget my longing within it, knowing that all was somehow… — Tosca Lee Copy Share Image
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Out of the rhythm and sound of the sea that beat through the orchestra, something moved--pressing toward death with quiet insistent joy--the… — Jeanette Lee Copy Share Image
It is a nice feeling when you know that some one loves you, misses you, needs you, but it is better when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep,… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of… — Dorothy Richardson Copy Share Image
I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Lots of people want to ride with you Hoping and longing for you more and more Thinking you were way close but...… — Sammy Bond Copy Share Image
I craved your warmth. I hugged myself, rubbing my fingers up and down. I guess people are like insects sometimes, drawn to… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
