At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about you being gone isn't missing you so very much. It's noticing how different life is without you. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Loneliness itself is material for sacrifice. The very longings themselves can be offered to Him who understands perfectly. The transformation into something… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“He missed her, a longing that tore deep into him. He resented her He wondered endlessly what might have happened. He changed,… — Chimanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“Jubilation knows and Longing grants — only Lament still learns; with girlish hands she counts the ancient evil through the nights. But… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Others saw in the trend still another instance of a disturbing tendency in the American suburb: the longing for withdrawal, for self-enclosure,… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
“I know it's too early for the L-word, and yet it's there, bursting from the seams, begging to be spoken. And as… — Misty Wilson Copy Share Image
“By-and-by Jo roamed away upstairs, for it was rainy, and she could not walk. A restless spirit possessed her, and the old… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I knew, even as we touched that I had never wanted anything more in all my life. All my crabbed cravings were… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
“New York may end up being no more than a scrim, a spectral film that is none other than our craving for… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I don’t understand.” Except, truthfully, I just didn’t want to understand. Pain shadowed across his face. “Darkness lives in me, Theia. Inside… — Gwen Hayes Copy Share Image
I want to be your everything, the way you're mine. Your smile lights up my day and I can't stop smiling. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The desire to transcend one's own ego boundaries, to share completely, even for a moment, the consciousness of another person must be… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Wine is a sign of happiness, love and plenty, how many of our adolescents and young people sense that these are no… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
For here we are so blind and foolish that we never seek God until he, of his goodness, shows himself to us.… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
When you miss someone badly the best solution is to see them, but if they aren't coming back to your life then… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense,… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal. Even… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“He lifted his head, the sight of his dark, disheveled hair, eyes glinting with longing in the lamp light, the gorgeous spread… — Emme Rollins Copy Share Image
The thing that attracts people to "The Sopranos" is the family element. It shows that America still has a longing for that… — Christine O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Films, they allow us to escape and to dream and to gaze into the eyes that are impossibly beautiful and huge. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Once you've fallen in love, it's turned around your whole life. You keep thinking about this girl all the time instead of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Then he lets go and walks down the path, without another word. He doesn't look back. But I watch him go. I… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“What I didn’t know back then, is that I was cold. I’d turned off the longing, knowing that if I let one… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“The awful longing in his eyes, are changed forever On their rocky waste of island by their imagination Of his imagination of… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
There is no man on the face of the earth who can satisfy the deepest longings of a woman's heart--God made us… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is an affliction. Life a fever or a cancer, the longing for what had vanished wasting a person away. Not just… — Hala Alyan Copy Share Image
It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
If I could turn this plane around I'd fly to where you are right now. Write your name into the sky. Hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People, after all, only love and respect other people so long as they remain unable to judge them. Longing is a child… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
