People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Each time I see you I behave as if everything is going well without you in my life, but deep down my… — Usman Ismaheel 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
“I wrote a poem once — a simple thing, but instinct with longing — while sitting under a tree and listening to… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
I think everyone goes through a phase of longing to be little - I always wanted to be a girl who could… — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about "outsidership" is that underneath it there's a longing to belong. I just wish the thing I… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“From birth to death, from Monday to Monday, from morning to evening—all activities are routinized, and prefabricated. How should a man caught… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“Each in His Own Tongue A fire mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell, A jellyfish and a saurian, And… — William Herbert Carruth Copy Share Image
Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
“I suffer from chronic nostalgia. Looking back makes me dizzy, queasy, and I yearn for it, ache for it. I want it… — Jacqueline Simon Gunn Copy Share Image
The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting,… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
“Sighs are the gales that blow us to heaven, I sometimes think; they breathe unconscious weariness of the “here,” and longing for… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
Spirituality is man's conscious longing for God. Spirituality tells us that God, who is unknowable today, will tomorrow become knowable and, the… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Don't throw away your time dreaming of someone that doesn't want you. No one is that amazing, certainly not the one who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands and let the stars swirl… — Beth Revis 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
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
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
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
