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
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
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
He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
“Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances. Yet all the while… — Edger Lee Masters Copy Share Image
there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“He suddenly felt the intense sad loveliness of being as being, apart from right or wrong: that, indeed, the mere fact of… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots,… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
In our youths, many of us suspected that being tied down to a partner and family might constrain us. But after 40,… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed… — Alain de Botton 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
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?” (…) A sigh of longing. “To be honest,… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“There I was, Talking to you in the language of sunsets. I wanted to hold that luminous wind in my hair, to… — Monica Laura Rapeanu Copy Share Image
“Every human being is longing for involvement. Not for touch, not for a kiss, not for sex, not for anything else; one… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that… — Lauren Groff 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
There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Here’s what college will get you: a sad, lonely, competitive longing for unattainable goals and a deep anxiety about impending failure and… — Ron Burgundy Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder why I spend some much time wondering about you, waiting for you, or wasting my time, but then I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you sit in bed wondering why people notice her and not you, just know that someone out there cares about you,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
The pangs of pain, of failure, in this mortal lot, are the birth-throes of transition to better things. We are separated for… — John Elof Boodin Copy Share Image
Miles and miles we're apart but thoughts of you lingers in my heart. I wonder if there's a single chance I could… — Fraynee Gamala Copy Share Image
“I go backwards and forwards, recapturing the past, wondering about the future—and, most unreasonably, I find myself longing for the past more… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“..and when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Some people say the worst way to miss someone is when they are right next to you and you know you can't… — Mayurkumar Solanki Copy Share Image
“If I could, I would work my way backward, paring away the years. I would reel my life arouond the wheel of… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work.… — Kabir Copy Share Image
I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“He never understood until now that being someone's lover requires longing, a painful wait that turns small moments into several eternities.” — Natalia Sylvester Copy Share Image
I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it… — Jon Crosby Copy Share Image
I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
