I still cry every night. I still walk in the door calling for you. I still call your phone. I still cant… — Mickey Anderson Copy Share Image
The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing.… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
I did not have any role model. I could not learn anything from the female voice that male poets used, a voice… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has… — Ivan Klima Copy Share Image
“When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so called… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
When I went home, my family became a little lonely family because it was just me and my mom. Part of my… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
“I didn’t say, “I’ll call you.” I didn’t hug her because of the wet clothes. Just a quick kiss. Then I turned… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps,… — John Haines Copy Share Image
For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
I suppose everyone is looking for love, and we live in a culture where we have opportunities to fall in love far… — Leanne Shapton Copy Share Image
I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why… — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I'm here again, a thousand miles away from you. A broken mess, just scattered pieces of who I am. I tried so… — Francine Chiar Copy Share Image
“The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over… — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
“Laine slowly rolled out of bed. The queen size was one of the few new things in the house. But now, even… — Stephen M. Irwin Copy Share Image
One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my head, I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes… — Shari Arison Copy Share Image
We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“Knock the bullshit off. Love her like crazy, endlessly, stripped of reserve and preservation. Be out of our fucking minds with love,… — Pella Grace Copy Share Image
Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love… — Sarah Doudney Copy Share Image
“This is freedom. This is the face of faith, nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
“A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of her. That… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wish I could describe how wonderful I feel in those few seconds from the time he spreads his arms above… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“The Portuguese word saudade has no direct English translation; applied to a range of human experience it conveys longing, nostalgia, homesickness, the… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share Image
“To my unsuspecting love. When I look into your eyes, I lose all sense of time and place. Reason robbed, clear thought… — Julianne Donaldson Copy Share Image