“The only thing I have learned from life is to endure it, never to question it, and to burn up the longing… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
Not quite forgotten but not worth remembering, and all that I want is that happy ending, with you by my side, I'm… — Rocco Alexander Memery Copy Share Image
Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world,… — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
“As I was looking at myself in the bathroom mirror, it occurred to me that if all else failed, a man could… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“It's the what if? The what then? And we know that if we go for it, if we risk it, we immediately… — Danny Wallace Copy Share Image
“Alas for our foolish human nature! Its fond mistakes are persistent. The dictates of reason take a long time to assert their… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Vronsky meanwhile, in spite of the complete fulfilment of what he had so long desired, was not completely happy. He soon felt… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Have you ever been in love? Isn't it awful? The constant insecurity of not being good enough. The worries of how others… — Leslie Copy Share Image
You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a big bang as… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“That they were torn from mistakes they had no chance to fix; everything unfinished. All the sins of love without detail, detail… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds - this, and that brief madness of bliss which is experienced only by… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I miss all the little things. Like him driving with his hand resting on my knee and the way wed share a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An outsider longing to be on the inside is the same as the soloist longing to work in an ensemble. I get… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“The campus, an academy of trees, under which some hand, the wind's I guess, had scattered the pale light of thousands of… — Ruth Stone Copy Share Image
For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“He was what the egotistical part of me had always longed for: danger, sexiness, popularity, style, unpredictability. The kind of man who'd… — Lucy Robinson Copy Share Image
The feeling of longing for home is born into us. That wonderful dream cannot become real without great faith - enough for… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Music in a movie might tell you about longing. It might tell you about fear. It might tell you any number of… — Fred Schepisi Copy Share Image
“The fatal combination of indulgence without feeling disgusts me. Strange to be both greedy and dead. For myself, I prefer to hold… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“Sadly as some old mediaeval knight Gazed at the arms he could no longer wield, The sword two-handed and the shining shield… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“ I loved Vincent and he loved me in the abiding way most couples in good marriages love each other, that way… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Copy Share Image
“How do I describe the feeling that envelopes my being when he is near? It is like a cocoon of warmth and… — Jasmine Dubroff Copy Share Image
“For with another part of his mind he felt the encroachment of a chilling fear, eclipsing all other feelings, that the thing… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“Then she sat as if paralyzed, thinking. She had never in her life felt such a longing. She wanted Mikael Blomkvist to… — Stieg Larsson translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland Copy Share Image
I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
... Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“It seemed to her as if her body were altogether too heavy for her; she had the feeling so well known to… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father, Until it be according unto mine? But, no, Lord, no, that never… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
“She closed her eyes, soaking in the feel of his hand, then opened them and stared at his perfect face as longing… — Cindi Madsen Copy Share Image
I'd rather do something than read about it." "That's fine, but if you do it, and then can't think what it means,… — Dean Hughes Copy Share Image
“One of the two owners, the man who had been sitting in the front room, was stretched out in there asleep, stockinged-toes… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange shapes: sometimes they were… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Images break with a small ping, their destruction is as wonderful as their being, they are essentially instruments of torture exploding through… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
“The joy of having something comes from the length of time you have been wanting it, expecting it. Happiness really lies in… — Osho Copy Share Image
I think no country is going to be immune from the Arab awakening because the Arab awakening is driven by deep human… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
