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
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
Communism is an aspiration, an aspiration is an ideal, a dream, a longing of something that would be perfect, but hard to… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write. — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that… — James Gray Copy Share Image
It's my strength for holding on, every minute that I have to be gone. I'll have everything I'll ever need, I'm carrying… — Joyce Copy Share Image
“We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Beauty is transcendent. It is our most immediate experience of the eternal. Think of what it's like to behold a gorgeous sunset… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing--to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the… — John Haines Copy Share Image
The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening... — Hermann Hesse 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
...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for. — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The God who is worthy to be known and served for who He is, is Himself the answer to this world's longings.… — Tom Wells Copy Share Image
“I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I've worked hard at… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder why I spend some much time wondering about you, waiting for you, or wasting my time, but then I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image