“Consider my Lover; the yellow church of his skin, the clean wells of his ears; How the notes of a song come… — Cecilia Llompart Copy Share Image
There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
I can't escape the thought of you. Even in my dreams, you are there. Its really not fair how you're gone and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I looked with longing at honors, wealth, and marriage, and you laughed at me. Amidst such desires I suffered most bitter troubles,… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
Our world is... longing to see people whose God is big and holy and frightening and gentle and tender... and ours; a… — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
“Minli suddenly thought of Ma and Ba. A wave of longing washed through her and a dryness caught in her throat that… — Grace Lin Copy Share Image
“Love consumes me like the burning flame of a candle, I grieve in your Longing, my desire too agonizing to be handled… — Irtika Kazi Copy Share Image
I don't know where I stand with you, nor do I know what I mean to you. All I know is that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My child, I know you're not a child But I still see you running wild Between those flowering trees. Your sparkling dreams,… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
And we'd look at each other the way you do when you see someone on the street you think you recognize, but… — Michele Jaffe Copy Share Image
“The Portuguese call it saudade: a longing for something so indefinite as to be indefinable. Love affairs, miseries of life, the way… — Anthony De Sa Copy Share Image
Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I call him my friend, but in the last year it's seemed too casual a word for what Gale is to me.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
“When I am not with you I am alone, For there is no one else And there is nothing That comforts me… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“I thought about this. As I have already told you, I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Creativity is the vulnerability to spiritual and physical sensation, and to experience, combined with and acting upon a certain level of skill,… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for… — James A. Forbes Copy Share Image
Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
There is nothing on earth that can satisfy our deepest longing. We long to see God. The leaves of life are rustling… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“This is freedom. This is the force of faith. Nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
The longing to be holy makes us weep, and we trust tears since they are made of water and come from our… — Deborah Keenan Copy Share Image
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work,… — Antoine De Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I shook so that it was some time before I realized that he was shaking too, and for the same reason. I… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“The hell with her; I wouldn’t go back. But wouldn’t I? What about later on? Keeping the thought of her out of… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing… — Dave Earley Copy Share Image
Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Joy is big. Joy lives in your own drunken electrons, billions of them, spinning and dancing without end in their own intimate… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The methods and technologies of how to experience that which is beyond the physical is what is known as the science of… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“I am a lover of words and tragically beautiful things, poor timing and longing, and all things with soul, and I wonder… — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
“Kavita’s arms are still outstretched, but they hold nothing. After the metal gate clangs shut behind them, Kavita can still hear Usha’s… — Shilpi Somaya Gowda Copy Share Image
Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Sometimes I lie awake looking at the sky, seeing the stars as bright as your eyes, I'm waiting impatiently to hear your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but… — John Adams Copy Share Image
So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
“People live to love; but then they realize that love is nothing. Love is just desire and longing; the culmination of a… — Umair Naeem Copy Share Image
