“We'd had small lives, populated by a longing for something more substantial than dirt roads and small dreams.” — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings. — Nancy Etcoff Copy Share Image
The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“I have late night conversations with the moon; he tells me about the sun, and I tell him about you.” — S.L. Gray Copy Share Image
It's not that I want you with me everytime, but It's just I want anyone else to have you for a second — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
I--love's skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb-- Shall leap into the light lost In my mother's womb. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“We are in the world where the longing mountains are the most grounded.” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. — Ismail Merchant Copy Share Image
The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's been a long day without my friend and I'll tell you all about it when I see you again. We've come… — Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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
I might no get to see you as long as I like, I may not get to hold you at night, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must not stint Our necessary actions in the fear To cope malicious censurers, which ever, As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the preceding page,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The sun, through the filter of the trees, glints green off the cells of her suit, outlines her soft curves. I’m overcome… — Catherine Stine Copy Share Image
“I understood. Being from a place where a few facts are enough to define you, where a few habits can fill a… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest… — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
“Love is your addiction to an eternal longing for someone...A thirst which one cannot relinquish” — Seema Gupta Copy Share Image
“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Everyday I tell myself I need to get over you, But every night I find myself thinking about how much I want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I dread that it may be only a longing for annihilation. No person who has seen his own face plain can want… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
If we will deny the longing of love, we will lose even the last address of the stranger inside us. — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“She inhabited a world from which I was excluded, and she had left me in an immense empty space.” — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“In making God our buddy, we find Him nice for cuddling but not much help when the hurricane comes. UNFULFILLED LONGING FOR” — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“I know you’re thinking about him and I know you miss him. I can feel your longing,” he said softly. ~ Nathan” — Jennifer Hines Copy Share Image
The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers. — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
