Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
That first replica of the Globe that I saw at the Chicago World's Fair was a suspect thing, made of plywood and… — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It really feels so sad, when both partner cant stop loving eachother despite the fact that they realise they cant have each… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
“Longing did not even begin to describe the dark, blissful, almost painful feeling that rose within me. It was as if I… — Katherine Pine Copy Share Image
“She did not tell him this, because it would hurt him to know she had felt that way for a while, that… — chimamanda ngozi adichie Copy Share Image
“That trip was like all my life, distilled: a compulsion to thrust myself toward adventure, offset by a longing to crawl into… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
“Did I want to be like him? Did I want to be him? Or did I just want to have him? Or… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I think that if life separates us and we end up in totally different places, I will always remember when our paths… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really wanna do a Spanish album. I have that Latin culture background. It's a part of me. I'm not the best… — David Archuleta Copy Share Image
“Partings make us sad; they make us feel as though we are being beaten up by fate; sometimes they make us feel… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Perhaps your hunger to belong is always active and intense because you belonged so totally before you came here. This hunger to… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Through words we come to know the other person--and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that… — Marlin K. Jensen Copy Share Image
Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
There in the windy flood of morning Longing lifted its weight from me, Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering,… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“She looks down at the ground to hide her smile of pleasure and to affect modesty, but when the dance brings them… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
His breath in my ear, he ran his tongue along the curved edge, sucking the fleshy lobe and my small diamond stud… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
All the memories we shared all the laughter you gave me all those cherished moments we had together, is what I wished… — Ceceia Velazquez Copy Share Image
At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for… — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
“She believes in these words: suck dry the juice of life like a leech, including its secret happiness and hurt, spontaneous passion… — Hui Wei Copy Share Image
Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealous readers.) But it was… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
“Did I want him to act? Or would I prefer a lifetime of longing provided we both kept this little Ping-Pong game… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“La sua voce profonda risuonava attraverso il mio intero essere. Risvegliava sentimenti e sensazioni lasciate in sospeso troppo a lungo.” — Petra March Copy Share Image
I miss your cuddles I miss your kisses but most of all I miss you! The love I have will never change… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was one of those dreams from which she woke up depressed about her reality, filled with a longing that pulled at… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“The Holy Spirit will not allow you to live satisfied on the rubbish heap; he will nurture a longing for the City… — Gloria Furman Copy Share Image
“I do,” Drew admitted, his eyes devouring my body appreciatively. “But with you…I want so much more, Summer. So much more than… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“So much longing. So many lives filled with longing. It's what stories― all our stories― are made of. And what is longing… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
“He invaded my consciousness in the same way the ocean washes up on the beach, with sweeping tides of longing and regret,… — Vicki Pettersson Copy Share Image
The thing that makes love stories work, in my opinion, in movies and novels and country & western songs, is the feeling… — Robert Zemeckis Copy Share Image
It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic… — Frank Black Copy Share Image
