“Once, long ago, I heard the mermaids singing, but I do not think they will sing to me now.” — Toby R. Beeny Copy Share Image
“What did I know of loving anything, beyond a longing, beyond being biased in one woman's direction.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“When a man has learned how to remain alone with his suffering, how to overcome his longing to flee, then he has… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world… — Alan Zweibel Copy Share Image
As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
“She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could… — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
We are called by God to live by faith and in spirit, to long and desire for His promises. It's not yet… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
“What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“If only you would kiss me. Press your lips to mine like a searing iron. Wrap me in your arms as if… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Longing surged up within me. I wanted it. Oh God, I wanted it. I didn't want to hear Jerome chastise me for… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the feathers of birds --… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“When the rush of the weak sweeps over those that strive to be strong, its destruction. The commonplaces of moral judgment become… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd: the longing for impossible things, precisely because… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In… — Rani Mukerji Copy Share Image
The thought of you is constantly occupying my mind, but when I turn around looking for you, you're never found. I love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Haunted by the longing to feel something real, deep and magical; I searched for a shared ecstasy... that's when you came along.” — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
Normal men retain their childish longing for a woman to mother them. At adolescence a new desire is added. They want a… — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of… — S. D Gordon Copy Share Image
There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Most people are blind to magic. They move thru a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives and there’s nothing… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition,… — Jane Yolen 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
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
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
“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
What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
