“And he walked off down the path with his jaunty, independent stride. And I stood there where he left me, tremulous with… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
How do you stop longing for what you absolutely know you can't get? Which really means: How do you absolutely know you… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
“Except, how do we go on when what was best is behind us? When the longing is not for someone you have… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Copy Share Image
But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“[…] there come moments when we know we are no more and no less than waves and snowflakes, or than that which… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my… — Sela Ward Copy Share Image
The life of woman is full of woe, Toiling on and on and on, With breaking heart, and tearful eyes, The secret… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“If you look to anyone to satisfy your longing, you will think you need something more than him and what he has… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“It's like a cat bell, so pretty yet alarming, because i know I'm letting myself fall when maybe I should fly away.… — Lisa McMann Copy Share Image
Even a good marriage leaves people with longings for certain things their marriage will never be. So, do they accept that, make… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Sometimes touring can warp reality because you're never in one place long enough to get a feel for it. You don't interact… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Prayer simply means a longing of the heart, it is the wish felt, - it may be expressed, or not expressed. It… — Keshub Chandra Sen Copy Share Image
We don't know that we've lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence. Something… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't… — Meindert DeJong Copy Share Image
“We had, as men, time So our thirst could slowly be satisfied, the ancestral longing to enumerate things and sum them up,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children… — Richard Hooker Copy Share Image
“...that distant longing and determination, that knowledge that he was born for something greater than his small past or his sleepy present.” — Leon Logothetis Copy Share Image
Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“...sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are.” — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings… — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
If today's arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies… — Oskar Schlemmer Copy Share Image
“Dusk" The shadow covers the outer petals The wind makes off with the final gestures of leaves The foreign, now twice-silenced sea… — Alejandra Pizarnik Copy Share Image
The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
“If only they could listen with their hearts & not their minds, maybe then they would understand that often times it's the… — Christine Upton Copy Share Image
I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Long for happiness, because that's what life truly means, where there is no happiness, there's no peace, and without peace there's no… — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
“Grief was messy. It didn’t have the elegance of longing, the poetry of heartbreak; its wholeness made it solid, its certainty made… — Lara Williams Copy Share Image
“I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“The tides rolled up to crash against the shore while we sat feet from one another with the remnants of all we’d… — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
“His guitar bore his longing up into the darkness like sparks, a music profound in its objectless desire, beautiful beyond solace or… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
![“[…] there come moments when we know we are no more and no less than waves and snowflakes, or than that which surely feels, now and then, from its so wonderfully charming confinement, the pull of longing: the leaf.” quote by Robert Walser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/071/robert-walser-6307_nostalgia_there-come-moments-when-we-know-we-are-n_1573667.jpg)
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