“Comes again the longing, the desire that has no name. Is it for Mrs. Prouty, for a drink, for both: for a… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“The experience of time translates itself into language, and language translates itself into distance, which translates itself into longing, which is the… — Jenny Boully Copy Share Image
Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
I have done what they expected of me. I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut. This is what I… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
On the other hand, whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do ,and if we want… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
The sovereign quality of wilderness is the same wherever encountered… Each manifestation has an unshackled quality-each stirs untapped longings-each gives a fillip… — Harvey Broome Copy Share Image
“Bygones" The weatherman says heavy rain, instead it dribbles like an old man unable to urinate. In the small orbit of the… — Robert Karaszi Copy Share Image
I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God’s. But our efforts count, even though like Simeon we only stretch out our… — Eberhard Arnold Copy Share Image
There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
I am the man you've needed all you life. I can give you whatever you wish before you even realize you are… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to go through this. I don’t want to be without her. I don’t want to miss her like I… — Laurelin Paige Copy Share Image
The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers for the recognition that you are somebody. Somebody… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we… — Carole Maso Copy Share Image
This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“She hears the word bell, or orchard, or swallow, and she experiences a strange surprise, like the feel of a coin in… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
No one can actually define love, but you attempt to, and the closest you can get is longing. And that itself has… — Robert Zemeckis Copy Share Image
Glad and merry and sweet is the blessed and lovely demeanour of our Lord towards our souls, for he saw us always… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
“In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in love, to combat… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Longing, whether for a passion or person, is one of the most powerful, yet painful, emotions there is. It can drive you… — jennifer salaiz Copy Share Image
They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“As I was looking at myself in the bathroom mirror, it occurred to me that if all else failed, a man could… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“One spirit remained unaware of his presence, staring at Miss Parker with such longing that he reluctantly decided to let it stay.… — Leanna Renee Hieber Copy Share Image
Through words we come to know the other person--and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
“Don't you find it remarkable that the whole world can be involved in this madness we call war, and all the while… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Writing is my way of trying to understand vast things that probably I'll never truly understand, a way of exploring a Big… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image
My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Perhaps your hunger to belong is always active and intense because you belonged so totally before you came here. This hunger to… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Partings make us sad; they make us feel as though we are being beaten up by fate; sometimes they make us feel… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
