Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When my nights are lonely and I feel like crying all I do is think of all the good things we could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative… — Polly Toynbee 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
If only I was with you, I would kiss you. If only was beside you, I would embrace you tight. But since… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think what's interesting about Alice Munro, too, is the extreme mundanity of things. And how even a life reduced to complete… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Can't I just fast forward to the part where he's no longer the first person I think about when I wake up… — Diana A Araneta Copy Share Image
In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Clairey knew well that it was one thing to occupy his bed, quite another to occupy his heart.” — Tracy Winegar Copy Share Image
“She goes on with her beautiful hair and mouth like before, I go on like before, alone in the field. It’s like… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved. — Lisa See Copy Share Image
A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Dorian used to watch you like a starving man who wants meat. Now he looks at you like he wants seconds. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“My letters! all dead paper, mute and white! And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous hands which loose the… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
