All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake. — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
“If it were possible to create objects to meet one’s deepest longings then nobody would need God.” — Eliza Granville Copy Share Image
“Today the clerk in the fancy deli next door asked me how I was, and I said, 'I have deep longings that… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“We keep inventing new things that make new longings, new holes that must be filled.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for. — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future. — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
“He knew now that when power and ambition and curiosity were satisfied, there still were left the longings of the heart.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“That our pains and longings are thousandfold and can be anesthetized in a thousand different ways is as commonplace a truth as… — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
“Increasingly, during those classes, longings had seized me, foreign, torrential aches that overran my heart. I wanted to know things, to become… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“When I was in my early twenties I didn't have a need to rub together, back when my life was a series… — Tyne O'Connell Copy Share Image
“People without a relationship with their personal Creator are hungering for love, happiness, meaning, and fulfillment, but nothing that this planet offers… — Kenneth D. Boa Copy Share Image
“Minli suddenly thought of Ma and Ba. A wave of longing washed through her and a dryness caught in her throat that… — Grace Lin Copy Share Image
My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The life of woman is full of woe, Toiling on and on and on, With breaking heart, and tearful eyes, The secret… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Trifles cannot satisfy our longings. Sensual pleasures, power over our fellow man, the acquisition of things, these are babbles, toys, trifles. Our… — Vaughn Heppner Copy Share Image
“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Lonely Balcony The deterioration brought by weariness was visible. Its burden of abandonment can be perceived at a glance. The balcony ache… — iqra iqbal Copy Share Image
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The correspondence testifies to the frailty of human longings, to the process of how something precious can turn fatal, a reality become… — Karina Szczurek Copy Share Image
“Later, you told me what your mother had said. How your father, the farmer, rose up slowly. You told me how your… — Jon Gresham 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
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“And the crazy part of it was even if you were clever, even if you spent your adolescence reading John Donne and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“I'm comming to You. You are blazing. I'm giving You a rose. It embalms sweet. I'm givin a kiss... I melt of… — Martins Paparde Copy Share Image
“Have you really not noticed, then, that here of all places, in this private, personal solitude that surrounds me, I have turned… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Let it all go to waste… For what I long for, I’m bound to resign! Bittersweet is, like the taste of wine,… — Aleksandra Ninkovic Copy Share Image
The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“Imaginings and resonances and pain and small longings and prejudices. They mean nothing against the resolute hardness of the sea. They meant… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“For your sake poets sequester themselves, gather images to churn the mind, journey forth, ripening with metaphor, and all their lives they… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Many adults, in the indurated immobility of years, acquire a fear of places they have never been, even as they long for… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
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