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
I sit all alone smiling, I want going mad but I'm reminiscing into the wonderful times we spent smiling together. — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
“Not caring about what others would think is the first item on the list of advice for anyone aspiring to do anything… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Thirsting desires and longings possessed my soul after perfect holiness. God was so precious to my soul that the world with all… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
I see you in my dreams and know you are there, but I still feel like I have lived my whole lifetime… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
All our longings for what is loving and true reach out into heaven. They put us in touch with angels who are… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Birthright citizenship in America is part of something larger: The American longing to sever from history, to be a place of new… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
“The Troubadours Etc." Just for this evening, let's not mock them. Not their curtsies or cross-garters or ever-recurring pepper trees in their… — Mary Szybist Copy Share Image
“bye-bye love, as in songs. All alone now. It was so sad. Why did such things have to disintegrate like that? Why… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Though we had to part, though we could never be together again. We had no regrets. Even if he returned to his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On the train I saw that world passing my window. It was when I came to see it was I who was… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“For he has faith enough, he feels, if he were really to delve into himself, faith enough to move mountains, but he… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
“...that somewhere from amidst the welter of sound there will dart up, like a bird, a single authentic note of immortal longing.” — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
“I love you with an awful intensity. Sometimes when I just sit in a trance staring at a piece of paper, pen… — Marlene Wagman-Geller Copy Share Image
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could stare at the stars for hours, their… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I missed Ash, and the longing was ripping my stomach to pieces, but I also wanted Puck to come back and kiss… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“Bet it would be even more awkward if I kissed you now, huh?' Yes, please. 'The next time we kiss had better… — Rebecca Yarros Copy Share Image
It got to a point of where it was ruining my health and I just hated it. I hated doing it and… — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
I don't know how you say good-bye to whom and what you love. I don't know a painless way to do it,… — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely,… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, To have no home in the present. And these are wishes: gentle… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Here I sit mesmerized by the sight of something I never thought I would see in the light. So my dream was… — Joseph Carlson Copy Share Image
Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“We felt so small with the city lights stretching forever below us, and we yelled at the top of our lungs because… — Nina LaCour Copy Share Image
I don't have any huge desire to show you all that I'm not tough and strong, that I'm all feminine and soft.… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
Man has invented and discovered so many amazing things in this world, But one thing no one has been able to do… — Reshma Kassam Copy Share Image
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
