“This pursuit of unavailable distant people has oedipal roots. … fearing the consequences, they make certain that they fail at the attempt.”… — Kantor Copy Share Image
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Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
“The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in my hands, I… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Most of us spend all our working life dreaming of doing nothing, then when we end up doing nothing, we long for… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
When I wake up in the morning, I think of you. When I go to sleep at night, I think of you.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when you read, it's like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It's as if they say everything you have… — Gunnhild Øyehaug Copy Share Image
“I think I fell in love with you that amazing night on the kitchen floor. Or maybe it was the evening you… — Maggie Osborne Copy Share Image
Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
“You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start, I don't even know what songs would please… — rainer maria rilke Copy Share Image
“There, too, she would sit for hours gazing seawards. No tiniest speck of sail that crossed the waters could escape her watchful… — Emilia Francis Strong Dilke 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
You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
William Graebner's brilliant analysis of America's struggles over the meaning of Patty Hearst gives us not only new perspectives on the 1970s,… — Beth Bailey Copy Share Image
“ The Day is Done The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Wishing to grab the life with nothingness wanting to erase the sigh of tiredness forgetting myself completely from my being why do… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
Come, thou long expected Jesus, born to set thy people free; from our fears and sins release us; let us find our… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
“Afterward I remembered these things very clearly, with that longing we feel sometimes to recover a state of life that we have… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
Love is the expression of simplicity in emotion, the unattainable longing that comes so unexpectedly, with great subtlety and bliss — Confucius Copy Share Image
Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
How ironic for peacemaking efforts to discover that hatred is stronger for many than love; that the longing to achieve power through… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
Henry was learning that time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance,… — Jamie Ford Copy Share Image
What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by… — Thaddeus Norris Copy Share Image
“But each morning, when Eva wakes, she knows exactly who he is, and the knowledge of it leaves her with a faint,… — Laura Barnett Copy Share Image
How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Every time I try to move on with my life, memories of you keep haunting me. Since you've already forgiven me! What… — Cristina Orante Copy Share Image
“She had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“It was the feeling of not belonging, and longing for your familiar couch and your familiar TV with all those comforting TV… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Why is nostalgia such a bad thing? Nostalgia is a longing to return. If you really loved where you came from, if,… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
“But here’s the dilemma: Why is “how-to” so alluring when, truthfully, we already know “how to” yet we’re still standing in the… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I never quite dare to believe I'm brave enough to be an artist, but I'm on the side of artists. I think… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing. — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, there are memories of you which turn into thoughts that become tears I cry. I miss you so much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
