O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Truth is, youll meet hundreds of thousands of people but youre only going to lie awake thinking of one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I pray for salvation, pray for a sweet conversation, the problems not with you, it's without you — Secondhand Serenade Copy Share Image
“That the real source of all true longing is the human desire to attach ourselves to something infinite.” — Shmuley Boteach Copy Share Image
“When you are not with me, I am left with nothing but longing for you.” — Julianne Donaldson Copy Share Image
A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
The knowledge of your destiny is available to you, well before it actually happens, as a message streaming continuously from your heart… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
“Each one of us is longing only for health and happiness, in search of a way of living in the world that… — Woodson Merrell Copy Share Image
“The more formidable the contradiction between inexhaustible life-joy and inevitable fate, the greater the longing which reveals itself in the kingdom of… — Ferdinand Cohn Copy Share Image
“When she's next to him, when she rests her hand on his, his whole body aches with something like knowledge for all… — Brady Udall Copy Share Image
A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing. — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
