There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“It isn't any particular person I want to lie down with and make my own. It isn't anybody at all. It is… — Merri Lisa Johnson Copy Share Image
“Coffee's in the cabinet over the sink. I won't take long." "Good. You want a cup?" "No, I'm good. I had some… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“The depths of winter longing are ice within my heart The shards of broken covenants lie sharp against my soul The wraiths… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“He can’t understand people who long to retire. How can anyone spend their whole life longing for the day when they become… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will… — John Piper Copy Share Image
At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Weakness for wealth and for collecting and owning things of different kinds; the urge for physical (sensuous) enjoyment; the longing for honour,… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
The soul, in its longing to grow, will push us toward crisis points, bringing about a situation that will force us to… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
“And that’s what we’re truly longing for. On those weekends when we’re suddenly gripped with the urge to watch all three extended… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Have you beauty, that leads the heart from things fashioned of wood and stone to the holy mountain? Tell me, have you… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world… — Crazy Horse Copy Share Image
I think my mother became the muse because she had everything when she was in Hollywood: she had the marriage, the success,… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
“We are doomed to remain incomplete in our present existence. Our hopes and deepest longings will remain nothing but just that; Our… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“Eve was happy for her bestie. She just wished she had a guy who would look at her the way Seth looked… — Amy Meredith Copy Share Image
I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Longing is the fullest sense of desire; it's the most deeply felt kind of desire. I think the most interesting artwork comes… — Tom Burr Copy Share Image
Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I am not even six feet tall. Yet I am praying to the Absolute Supreme to reach His infinite Height, which is… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“For need can blossom into all the compensation it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a thing and… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Beautiful women, wealth, sensations, celebrity, substances capable of distorting my perception, and even forcing my body into positions ready for the covers… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
Love is not simply a feeling of romantic excitement; it is more than a desire to marry a potential partner; it goes… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
There’s never a moment in all our lives, from the day we trusted Christ till the day we see Him, when God… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
“When sweet lullabies are whispered into the sky, my heart is filled with with the sorrow of time. So when the kiss… — Melody Aurora Copy Share Image
“Yet a day comes when a man notices or says that he is thirty. Thus he asserts his youth. But simultaneously he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Quite a different thing is, if a seeker, dissatisfied by materialism and doctrines, and longing for spiritual support, will ask advice and… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
I am a man of peace. I am longing and working and praying for peace, but I will not surrender the safety… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Who has not in his great grief felt a longing to look upon the outward features of the universal Mother; to lie… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“In all my wanderings through this world of care, In all my griefs -- and God has given my share -- I… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
For any exam in history, here is the answer: all human history is the struggle between systems that attempt to shackle the… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“Did you know, that one night; one moonless, clear, shining night; with the shadowy silhouettes of trees crisp against the star-filled sky… — Radhika Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
