“The word longing comes from the same root as the word long in the sense of length in either time or space… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
“Souls of love breathlessly sail Towards our time when hours fail To cope with longing here we are Chasing the speed of… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“[T]he radical geographer Iain Boal had prophesied, "The longing for a better world will need to arise at the imagined meeting place… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“What drew him back was something altogether more personal, to a history where, in the pain and longing of adolescence, he was… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“His love of the sea had profound roots: the hardworking artist's desire to rest, his longing to get away from the demanding… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“People sometimes say that sorrow is mental but longing is physical. One is a wound, the other an amputated limb, a withered… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
The attack on Iraq has been long planned. There just hasn't been an excuse for it. Since George H.W. Bush didn't unseat… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and… — Homer Copy Share Image
So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“Realizing its inescapable nature, we can see heartbreak not as the end of the road or the cessation of hope but as… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children. And he said: Your children are… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The bible never belittles disappointment, but it does add one key word: temporary - What we feel now, we will not always… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“But the longing within him had grown even greater, the overpowering need to be alone. Locked in an empty room, entirely unwitnessed,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring,… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
“... deep inside you was a frantic longing to be something or someone other than you are. It is the greatest scourge… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“The lamplight was warm and the apartment still and snug. At home in bed, in my private abyss of longing, the scenes… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
You’ll never really know how much you meant to me. My heart will be with you until the end just wait and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My ears hear what others cannot hear; small faraway things people cannot normally see are visible to me. These senses are the… — India Stoker Copy Share Image
The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It’s unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“The longing provoked by the brochure was an example , at once touching and pathetic, of how projects (and even whole lives)… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“One evening he was in his room, his brow pressing hard against the pane, looking, without seeing them, at the chestnut trees… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“As we lifted off, China growing ever more distant from the window-seat, the endless ocean opening up before us, I was torn… — Megan Rich Copy Share Image
“The last clear thought I have is of my grandmother’s rust-colored wall clock ticking away in the darkness of my apartment—my sanctuary… — J. Tonzelli Copy Share Image
“A line from The Picture of Dorian Gray kept running through my head- a line which, I thought, might have been written… — Syrie James Copy Share Image
“The reins of our life are in the hands of the future. Man always lives today in the hope of tomorrow. And… — Osho Copy Share Image
Look, it's a monster. He's walking alone. Look, he's pulling something out of his pocket. He threw it on the ground. Let's… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
It is good for God's people to be put in a place of longing so they feel a slight desperation. Only then… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
“-You know how to call me although such a noise now would only confuse the air Neither of us can forget the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
![“It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central to [my photographs]... This invisibility - this erasure out of the complex history of our life and time - is the greatest source of my longing.” quote by Carrie Mae Weems](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/344/carrie-mae-weems-24837_black_it-s-fair-to-say-that-black-folks-operat_1875928.jpg)
![“[T]he radical geographer Iain Boal had prophesied, "The longing for a better world will need to arise at the imagined meeting place of many movements of resistance, as many as there are sites of closure and exclusion. The resistance will be as transnational capitalism.” quote by Rebecca Solnit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/26e/rebecca-solnit-569_better-world_t-he-radical-geographer-iain-boal-had-pr_2016400.jpg)
![“Realizing its inescapable nature, we can see heartbreak not as the end of the road or the cessation of hope but as the close embrace of the essence of what we have wanted or are about to lose. […] Heartbreak asks us not to look for an alternative path, because there is no alternative path. It is…” quote by David Whyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a91/david-whyte-3502_end-of-the-road_realizing-its-inescapable-nature-we-can_843473.jpg)
