A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing. — William A. Henry III 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
We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for… — Danica Patrick Copy Share Image
I dont know what must I do? 'coz everytime I close my eyes, isee your face, but when I open it, my… — Wilzon Esparcia Copy Share Image
That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There is a longing among all people and creatures to have a sense of purpose and worth. To satisfy that common longing… — Chief Dan George Copy Share Image
As the seconds, minutes, days and months pass by with this distance between us my love, I realize how much I miss… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let us give up our longing for welfare, our love of war, and our desire to see the government control and shape… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“the longing for wisdom itself is wisdom' - 'search for a fixed point within yourself, my child, that the world cannot reach'… — Gustav Meyrink Copy Share Image
“There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some… — Deborah L. Norris Copy Share Image
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“The feeling a child has for a missing parent or a parent has for a missing child is so strong, it is… — Mike Foster Copy Share Image
“She didn’t know that my heart was a sandstorm waiting to open her skin in a desert of cuts. She didn’t know… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
“Moon, that against the lintel of the west Your forehead lean until the gate be swung, Longing to leave the world and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And you can glance out the window for a moment, distracted by the sound of small kids playing a made-up game in… — DeLillo Don Copy Share Image
...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
“You still long for freedom, my friend, and that longing is your cage. You do not even realize what you are missing,… — James Curcio Copy Share Image
I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding, such, finally,… — Vincent of Lerins Copy Share Image
