How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears,… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“People, after all, only love and respect other people so long as they remain unable to judge them. Longing is a child… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Will it be here that we shall find a place which will not elude us, or which if it remains does not… — André Gide 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
“It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The sun, through the filter of the trees, glints green off the cells of her suit, outlines her soft curves. I’m overcome… — Catherine Stine Copy Share Image
“To love is to think. And I almost forget to feel only from thinking about her. I don’t know what I want… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
When the sky fills with bright colors I look towards the sunset to find you. I imagine you standing there next to… — Ty Onda Copy Share Image
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Then she took my hand and touched it to the wound beside her eye. I caressed the half-inch scar. As I did… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think on this issue more than any other we're going to see sort of a bipartisan longing to get something done,… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
“I initially discovered hiraeth on social media, and it made me suck in my breath as something stirred deep within me. It's… — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image
An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is an affliction. Life a fever or a cancer, the longing for what had vanished wasting a person away. Not just… — Hala Alyan Copy Share Image
“The awful longing in his eyes, are changed forever On their rocky waste of island by their imagination Of his imagination of… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
If I could turn this plane around I'd fly to where you are right now. Write your name into the sky. Hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“What I didn’t know back then, is that I was cold. I’d turned off the longing, knowing that if I let one… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
When you miss someone badly the best solution is to see them, but if they aren't coming back to your life then… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense,… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal. Even… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Others saw in the trend still another instance of a disturbing tendency in the American suburb: the longing for withdrawal, for self-enclosure,… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
“I know it's too early for the L-word, and yet it's there, bursting from the seams, begging to be spoken. And as… — Misty Wilson Copy Share Image
Films, they allow us to escape and to dream and to gaze into the eyes that are impossibly beautiful and huge. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Once you've fallen in love, it's turned around your whole life. You keep thinking about this girl all the time instead of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Then he lets go and walks down the path, without another word. He doesn't look back. But I watch him go. I… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“He lifted his head, the sight of his dark, disheveled hair, eyes glinting with longing in the lamp light, the gorgeous spread… — Emme Rollins Copy Share Image
The thing that attracts people to "The Sopranos" is the family element. It shows that America still has a longing for that… — Christine O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
No one is longing to meet a desperate needy, angry, withholding, controlling person. If your beloved is out there they can't pick… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
