“This is freedom. This is the force of faith. Nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Joy is big. Joy lives in your own drunken electrons, billions of them, spinning and dancing without end in their own intimate… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
The methods and technologies of how to experience that which is beyond the physical is what is known as the science of… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Kavita’s arms are still outstretched, but they hold nothing. After the metal gate clangs shut behind them, Kavita can still hear Usha’s… — Shilpi Somaya Gowda Copy Share Image
“I am a lover of words and tragically beautiful things, poor timing and longing, and all things with soul, and I wonder… — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing… — Dave Earley Copy Share Image
“In all my wanderings through this world of care, In all my griefs -- and God has given my share -- I… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Who has not in his great grief felt a longing to look upon the outward features of the universal Mother; to lie… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“For all her culture's attention to the physical, it seemingly has little to salve the creatural anguish of losing someone else's body,… — Michelle Latiolais Copy Share Image
“All my life I have longed to be alone in a place like this. Even when everything was going well, as it… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“He didn’t see any of his siblings on the way out, and he didn’t think it was because it was late. His… — N.J. Lysk Copy Share Image
In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The kind of love that God has for us, I think, is of an infinite longing for union, and the kind of… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work,… — Antoine De Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I shook so that it was some time before I realized that he was shaking too, and for the same reason. I… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“The hell with her; I wouldn’t go back. But wouldn’t I? What about later on? Keeping the thought of her out of… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“People live to love; but then they realize that love is nothing. Love is just desire and longing; the culmination of a… — Umair Naeem Copy Share Image
Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever… — Jane Urquhart Copy Share Image
“One of the saddest realities in life: Sometimes, no matter how much, how long, and how hard you love someone, it will… — Xy-sa Rhea Copy Share Image
So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Sometimes I lie awake looking at the sky, seeing the stars as bright as your eyes, I'm waiting impatiently to hear your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that… — Thomas Campion Copy Share Image
All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow, All the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In your arms you held me close, My head lay on your shoulder, Now its over and gone And my heart's just… — Elizabeth Revontlow Copy Share Image
Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined:… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we credit ourselves with a longing to be in some distant spot, whereas, in truth, we are only longing to have… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to… — Martine Leavitt Copy Share Image
God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do… — Robert Collyer Copy Share Image
Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for… — Danica Patrick Copy Share Image
“And in the background of Early's story was her voice. Her soul. Her sadness and longing. Because when it's raining, it's always… — Clare Vanderpool Copy Share Image
I dont know what must I do? 'coz everytime I close my eyes, isee your face, but when I open it, my… — Wilzon Esparcia Copy Share Image
Let us give up our longing for welfare, our love of war, and our desire to see the government control and shape… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
