Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
“I am a creature of grief and dust and utter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Longings. What is there to say about longings that hasn't already been said?” — Gail Hareven 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
When one does look up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray. — Opal Whiteley Copy Share Image
A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“You can learn a lot about the longings and generalized gender anxieties of an era by the kinds of fake women it… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“The longings of the human heart are changeable and elusive. The good fortune we enjoy today may not be appreciated until it… — Mimi Baird Copy Share Image
“... this stray little thought released in him some echo of the past, a solitary trembling note whose sound rose higher and… — Olga Grushin Copy Share Image
I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Out of infinite longings rise finite deeds like weak fountains, falling back just in time and trembling. And yet, what otherwise remains… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“That is the beauty of literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you are not lonely and isolated from… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“4. "Outward longings will drive you from the eden within; they offer false pleasures that only impersonate the souls happiness, The lost… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“Some of the streets are, however, genuinely narrow. These same streets may not be filled with machine-gun fire and the dramatic screech… — John Dolan Copy Share Image
“WHATEVER THE SOUL IS TAUGHT to expect, that it will build. Our heart longings, our soul aspirations, are something more than mere… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Year after year of dirty snow and bitter winds… houses and whole districts of people who aren’t really unhappy, but worse, who… — Eugène Ionesco 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
“Tell it, Fanny. About the crowds, streets, buildings, lights, about the whirligig of loneliness, about the humpty-dumpty clutter of longings. And then… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
“The Marquess shrugged. “I’m a shadow. I do know I am a shadow, Iago. I know most of the time. It’s only… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“At some time all cities have this feel: in London it's at five or six on a winer evening. Paris has it… — Geoff Dyer 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
“They were very bitter tears: everybody in the world seemed so hard and unkind to Maggie: there was no indulgence, no fondness,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me;… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting. — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
“The song and the silence in the heart, That in part are prophecies, and in part Are longings wild and vain” — Longfellow Copy Share Image
You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses. — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings? — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
There is no man on the face of the earth who can satisfy the deepest longings of a woman's heart--God made us… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
“He knew now that when power and ambition and curiosity were satisfied, there still were left the longings of the heart. No… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
