Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Tough to part; lock, stock and barrel. Something remains, like recognizable tastes and smells, which kindle the faculty of memory, yea-pricks the… — APORVAKALA Copy Share Image
“She spoke about her family she'd lost. She spoke about her secret hopes and fears and longings. She had love to give,… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In dreams, through longings, we can see— All latent in the dust of gold These forests that perhaps could be— But that… — Lucian Blaga Copy Share Image
“A veritable atlas. What rivers of desire, what mountains of ambition! Want, want, hope, hope. Your palm is nothing but an atlas… — Anuradha Roy Copy Share Image
“This is what we do with books: we put our longings and our questions and our angst onto trading ships and send… — Julian Darius Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that we do the same with our deepest longings for God. God does not always come… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
“I have become a sour woman. I take no joy in meat nor mead, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I regard longings for twinship or emotional kinship as being reactive to emotional trauma, with its accompanying feelings of singularity, estrangement, and… — Robert D. Stolorow Copy Share Image
Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much.… — Libba Bray 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
Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To whet our longings for fruitive or experimental knowledge, it is reserved among the prerogatives of being in heaven, to know how… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
“He turned to appease the fierce longings of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“He looked like someone pretending to be a knight, which was bad. He figured pretending to be something he actually wanted to… — Liam Perrin Copy Share Image
The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition,… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“My hearts been fleeting up so high,I'm longing for the leaps of the day & heaps of the night to pace my… — Madhushree Das Copy Share Image
“My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September days! How silent, how lifeless!” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of… — S. D Gordon Copy Share Image
