Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach? — Greta Garbo Copy Share Image
She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there? — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“I hear longing in these notes. They go all the way to the past and forward to some future where I haven't… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“But sometimes you can want something too much, there is always a threshold & a place to fall.” — Quan Barry Copy Share Image
I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“Underneath the longing and the fever of anticipation; there was a need. He needed her to do this to him, for him… — Alex Morgan Copy Share Image
Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many… — Louisa May Alcott 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
If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
People marry with a deep longing that their partner will tend to their wounds, not throw salt in them. Honor your partner's… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
“Shrinking in a corner, pressed into the wall; do they know I'm present, am I here at all? Is there a written… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“They that have beauty, let them be thankful for it, and make a good use of it, let them console themselves, and… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Out of… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“When I have not rage or sorrow, and you depart from me, then I am most afraid. When the belly is full,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“People are bound to remain anxious if there is a "should" in life. If there is an ideal that has to be… — osho Copy Share Image
I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing. — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop. — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“A woman is at heart – a wild creature. But the creature itself … that depends on you. (His wild rabbit – your wild horse)” — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future. — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
“and the river’s voice was full of longing, full of smarting woe, full of insatiable desire.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If ever I see you smile and know that it is not for me, that is when I will miss you the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Forgiveness of self is impossible until you stop longing for a better past. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? — Lawrence Durrell 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
We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
