“I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
Loneliness itself is material for sacrifice. The very longings themselves can be offered to Him who understands perfectly. The transformation into something… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
I could say that you complete me...but that would be a lie, because every morning when I wake I long for you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And then— He leans in. Not much. Just slightly. Just enough that if she moved even an inch— Their lips would touch.” — Amelia Frostwood Copy Share Image
And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
“I hung a picture of him above my bed and learned by hand the internal workings of the female combustion engine.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith,… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for… — Kathi Appelt Copy Share Image
“Our stomachs live in towns," said Mma Potokwani, patting the front of her dress. 'That is where the work is. Our stomachs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Never let the meaning of your love light escape to the dark nothingness of oblivion.” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
Emotionally, grief is a mixture of raw feelings such as sorrow, anguish, anger, regret, longing, fear, and deprivation. Grief may be experienced… — Judy Tatelbaum Copy Share Image
I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal… — Annie Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“When sweet lullabies are whispered into the sky, my heart is filled with with the sorrow of time. So when the kiss… — Melody Aurora Copy Share Image
“Cardan had grown up in the palace, a wild thing to be cosseted by courtiers and scowled at by the High King.… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
