...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
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
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
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
“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
Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Among journalists, there is a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads.' This can result in some serious hustling - and some serious… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
“It’s funny how you can lie in bed next to the same person for years and he’ll never know you’re longing for… — Carol Mason Copy Share Image
“My hearts been fleeting up so high,I'm longing for the leaps of the day & heaps of the night to pace my… — Madhushree Das Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how these things died without benefit of a bullet to the brain pan. They seemed to exist in an… — Steven Ramirez 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
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The ocean of the past, I still hide from so much of it and rely on all that I don't run from.… — Edward J Rathke Copy Share Image
“Plain Kate greased her boots and bandaged her feet, and soon she would walk like a Roamer born. She helped Drina with… — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
“These transient “tastes of the wild” come during the mystique of inspiration—ah, there it is; oh, now it has gone. The longing… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
“I am torn in two’ […] ‘Poor Sam! It might feel like that, I’m afraid,’ said Frodo. ‘But you will be healed.… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater. Lying awake, I… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“In truth isn't it a waiting that never ends like the chasm between the cycles of the world Between separation and union… — Tishani Doshi Copy Share Image
“You once shared with me the essence of love: to prioritize another's happiness and fulfilment. Today, I honour that wisdom by choosing… — Shahid Hussain Raja 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
“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
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
“You think embracing the longing while waiting for the right man is impossible? Well obviously you didn't get the memo.” — Osayi Osar-Emokpae Copy Share Image
“A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.” — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing. — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
“Like any / unloved thing, I don’t know if I’m real / when I’m not being touched.” — Natalie Wee Copy Share Image
I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals. — Salvador Plascencia Copy Share Image
“it requires great courage to hold the wounded parts of yourself that are longing for your loving attention” — Melinda Quesenberry 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
![“I am torn in two’ […] ‘Poor Sam! It might feel like that, I’m afraid,’ said Frodo. ‘But you will be healed. You were meant to be solid and whole, and you will be.’ [...] ‘Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much…” quote by J. R. R. Tolkien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/084/j-r-r-tolkien-2-1316_family_i-am-torn-in-two-poor-sam-it-might-feel_1867843.png)
