“But they had already tried, again and again and again, and always, when the first crashing wave of mutual longing subsided, the… — robert galbraith Copy Share Image
How wonderful," he purred. "I've been longing to speak to you for days, Princess Cecelia." "And I've been wanting to kick you… — Jessica Day George Copy Share Image
Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
People marry with a deep longing that their partner will tend to their wounds, not throw salt in them. Honor your partner's… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“And from that moment, I watched her. Watched her with different coloured eyes, until the raging energy that coursed through my body… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
“That year, when the trees burned the fire of late summer into their leaves and the ground mist was a ghost of… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Beauty is transcendent. It is our most immediate experience of the eternal. Think of what it's like to behold a gorgeous sunset… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
Spiritual fulfillment doesn't have to mean belief in a religion or disbelief in science. ... Whether one believes in an unseen, all-knowing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Turn from that road's beguiling ease; return to your hunger's turret. Enter, climb the stair chill with disuse, where the croaking toad… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Underneath the longing and the fever of anticipation; there was a need. He needed her to do this to him, for him… — Alex Morgan Copy Share Image
When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Most people are blind to magic. They move thru a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives and there’s nothing… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition,… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“There I was, Talking to you in the language of sunsets. I wanted to hold that luminous wind in my hair, to… — Monica Laura Rapeanu Copy Share Image
“Every human being is longing for involvement. Not for touch, not for a kiss, not for sex, not for anything else; one… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?” (…) A sigh of longing. “To be honest,… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal… — Annie Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Among journalists, there is a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads.' This can result in some serious hustling - and some serious… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
“It’s funny how you can lie in bed next to the same person for years and he’ll never know you’re longing for… — Carol Mason Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how these things died without benefit of a bullet to the brain pan. They seemed to exist in an… — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
“My hearts been fleeting up so high,I'm longing for the leaps of the day & heaps of the night to pace my… — Madhushree Das Copy Share Image
I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In Cuba we are building a socialist society and we could say we are on the verge of a communist society which… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
“And we who loved the world must learn the language of absence: days foreshortened, empty rooms, the irrevocable distance between the goodbye… — Joe Bolton Copy Share Image
