Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or… — John Irving Copy Share Image
How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears,… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Will it be here that we shall find a place which will not elude us, or which if it remains does not… — André Gide Copy Share Image
“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or… — Epes Sargent Copy Share Image
Nobody has seen the trekking birds take their way towards such warmer spheres as do not exist, or rivers break their course… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that… — Timothy Shriver Copy Share Image
“Today there is a deep longing in our culture to reconnect to this spiritual world, for we are not whole without it.… — Jeremy Nadler Copy Share Image
When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“The centripetal force on our planet is still fearfully strong, Alyosha. I have a longing for life, and I go on living… — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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
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
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
When I think of you and long for you, swearing all I want is one kiss, I smile and laugh because the… — Nicole Gillen Copy Share Image
“Longing for Death Down into the womb of the earth, Out of the kingdom of light, Anger, pain, and a savage blow… — Novalis Copy Share Image
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Even if I am broken into many pieces, I know you can still make me a piece of art in another form;… — Shahid Hussain Raja Copy Share Image
“My thoughts hovered over all varieties of mortal edible, and finally settled on a porterhouse steak and a quart of bitter with… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only… — Bret Anthony Johnston Copy Share Image
Getting over a first love is like a roller coaster ride. You feel totally alright one day and the next the longing… — Unkown Copy Share Image
Initially, less appealing to me than the idea of a vampire that is drawn by some misgiving or drawn by some sense… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
“We lay our words like tenuous plats, build a bridge over its unsinkable depth: Not a sea of longing, but the brack… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
“I still remember that feeling of walking somewhere confidently, seeing him mid stride and putting my foot down just fine… but feeling… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
If we really face our sadness, we find it speaks with the voice of our deepest longing. And if we face it… — Peter Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy:… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“When I hear girls I know longing to be what they call liberated, and when I hear others rejoicing in what they… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Each time I see you I behave as if everything is going well without you in my life, but deep down my… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
France and America have a long history of mutual loathing and longing. Americans still dream of Paris; Parisians still dream of the… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
People are people, whatever age they're living in. The circumstances may have changed - we go to war with planes instead of… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
No one is longing to meet a desperate needy, angry, withholding, controlling person. If your beloved is out there they can't pick… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“I wrote a poem once — a simple thing, but instinct with longing — while sitting under a tree and listening to… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
I think everyone goes through a phase of longing to be little - I always wanted to be a girl who could… — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image