Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I didn't feel lonely until there was something to yearn for. Loneliness and longing are two sides of the same coin.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing. — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Bring me somewhere new Away from this place; Its memories haunt me And I wish, longing to forget” — Jenn Waterman Copy Share Image
The Lady has always moved to the next town and you stumble on after Her. — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
I know you think that I might be happy without you, but the truth is I am broken into pieces which will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think everyone goes through a phase of longing to be little - I always wanted to be a girl who could… — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or… — Epes Sargent Copy Share Image
When I think of you and long for you, swearing all I want is one kiss, I smile and laugh because the… — Nicole Gillen Copy Share Image
“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“My thoughts hovered over all varieties of mortal edible, and finally settled on a porterhouse steak and a quart of bitter with… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only… — Bret Anthony Johnston Copy Share Image
For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“fit in here, in my palm, in my shadow, don’t be bigger than my idea of you, don’t be more beautiful than… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for this person's privacy, I'd be able to talk pretty freely about this subject on a personal level. The… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare… — Oriah Mountain Dreamer Copy Share Image
“Some people look as if they have lost their eagerness and passion. Their aspiration seems to be exhausted and fresh inspiration has… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Chances thrown, nothing's free, longing for what used to be. Still it's hard, hard to see, fragile lives, shattered dreams. — Offspring Copy Share Image
“May the loneliness of Christmas place in all hearts the longing for His presence.” — Allene vanOirschot Copy Share Image
The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Maybe our bodies are just hearts with legs and that’s why we’re so quick to run.” — Marisa Donnelly Copy Share Image
In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
And on the 8th day God created these for us to see but only one will be, to please these, God let… — Joseph Carlson Copy Share Image
Distance is not the thing that makes us suffer, it's missing someone that's always in your mind that really makes you suffer. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
So I step into the future, as bravely as I'm able, with my heart longing for a time I'll never see again. — Ekaterina Gordeeva Copy Share Image
“It tasted of twilight and mist, moonlight and frost, emptiness and longing.” — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
“He looked at me like I was the stars when all I’d ever felt like was the dark nothingness between them.” — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“If dreams are thwarted, then yearning must take their place If reunion is impossible, then longing must take its place.” — Faiz Ahmed Faiz Copy Share Image
If they miss you, they'll call. If they want you, they'll say it. If they care, they'll show it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every time I feel pensively sad, I know you are powerlessly longing to connect. — Dawinder Bansal Copy Share Image
It hurts when one day you wake up and you know you missing someone from your past but they are not there… — Norma Marthalia Copy Share Image