“Longing is the absent chatting with the absent. The distant turning toward the distant. Longing is the spring’s thirst for the jar-carrying… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
It is that kind of space, that little space of longing, whether it is in something like romantic love, or whether it's… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
I think that if life separates us and we end up in totally different places, I will always remember when our paths… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Did I want to be like him? Did I want to be him? Or did I just want to have him? Or… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I really wanna do a Spanish album. I have that Latin culture background. It's a part of me. I'm not the best… — David Archuleta Copy Share Image
I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians,… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
“Janus found himself drawn to the edge of the rink, staring fixedly at Candace as she approached: grinning, puffing steam, her cheeks… — Chris Lester Copy Share Image
When there's a strong desire within you to express or create something, know that this feeling is Divine discontent. Your longing is… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
“There is nothing. Only warm, primordial blackness. Your conscience ferments in it — no larger than a single grain of malt. You… — Robert Kurvitz Copy Share Image
Spiritual fulfillment doesn't have to mean belief in a religion or disbelief in science. ... Whether one believes in an unseen, all-knowing… — Anonymous 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
So much wanting and longing, clutching, desiring, passion and hatred and terrible need. Here, death was suitable, there was room for it,… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Turn from that road's beguiling ease; return to your hunger's turret. Enter, climb the stair chill with disuse, where the croaking toad… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“And from that moment, I watched her. Watched her with different coloured eyes, until the raging energy that coursed through my body… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
“That year, when the trees burned the fire of late summer into their leaves and the ground mist was a ghost of… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“One of the two owners, the man who had been sitting in the front room, was stretched out in there asleep, stockinged-toes… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
I'd rather do something than read about it." "That's fine, but if you do it, and then can't think what it means,… — Dean Hughes Copy Share Image
“It seemed to her as if her body were altogether too heavy for her; she had the feeling so well known to… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
... Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father, Until it be according unto mine? But, no, Lord, no, that never… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
“She closed her eyes, soaking in the feel of his hand, then opened them and stared at his perfect face as longing… — Cindi Madsen Copy Share Image
“ I loved Vincent and he loved me in the abiding way most couples in good marriages love each other, that way… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Copy Share Image
“How do I describe the feeling that envelopes my being when he is near? It is like a cocoon of warmth and… — Jasmine Dubroff Copy Share Image
“Sadly as some old mediaeval knight Gazed at the arms he could no longer wield, The sword two-handed and the shining shield… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“For with another part of his mind he felt the encroachment of a chilling fear, eclipsing all other feelings, that the thing… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“Then she sat as if paralyzed, thinking. She had never in her life felt such a longing. She wanted Mikael Blomkvist to… — Stieg Larsson translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland Copy Share Image
“The fatal combination of indulgence without feeling disgusts me. Strange to be both greedy and dead. For myself, I prefer to hold… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Music in a movie might tell you about longing. It might tell you about fear. It might tell you any number of… — Fred Schepisi Copy Share Image
By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“The campus, an academy of trees, under which some hand, the wind's I guess, had scattered the pale light of thousands of… — Ruth Stone Copy Share Image
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The feeling of longing for home is born into us. That wonderful dream cannot become real without great faith - enough for… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
“He was what the egotistical part of me had always longed for: danger, sexiness, popularity, style, unpredictability. The kind of man who'd… — Lucy Robinson Copy Share Image
I miss all the little things. Like him driving with his hand resting on my knee and the way wed share a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An outsider longing to be on the inside is the same as the soloist longing to work in an ensemble. I get… — George Carlin Copy Share Image