“She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“But sex as a physical act is merely athletics, a momentary relief. What it needs to be powerful is desire, and the… — Rosemary Sullivan Copy Share Image
There are times in life when you miss someone so much you just want to pluck them out of your phone contact… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing was the same ever since you left. Many have came and went but they remind me of the past. I was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sometimes think of you and wish we would have been together. But life is not perfect, so I've learned that everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just because you miss someone, it doesn't mean you should go back to them. Sometimes you have to just keep missing them… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“He had known in times of the greatest misery or danger that his dreams of home, in which all things seemed beautiful,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding, such, finally,… — Vincent of Lerins Copy Share Image
“I am burning. I have to live, I have to sing, I want to transform myself into a thousand different characters and… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
I am in a constant state of surprise these days. Actually, now that I calculate, I've been betrothed only one full day,… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“Kaz snagged her wrist. "Inej." His gloved thumb moved over her pulse, traced the top of the feather tattoo. "If we don't… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“I AM RESTLESS AM restless. I am athirst for far-away things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“She was the one. If I’d ever had a doubt, I didn’t now. She was the one I’d be thinking about, longing… — R.K. Lilley Copy Share Image
“I have a longing other than longing. other than what fills the chests of the years. Things approach it as if they… — Adonis Copy Share Image
I don't know how you say good-bye to whom and what you love. I don't know a painless way to do it,… — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely,… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could stare at the stars for hours, their… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I missed Ash, and the longing was ripping my stomach to pieces, but I also wanted Puck to come back and kiss… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“Bet it would be even more awkward if I kissed you now, huh?' Yes, please. 'The next time we kiss had better… — Rebecca Yarros Copy Share Image
It got to a point of where it was ruining my health and I just hated it. I hated doing it and… — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
“I love you with an awful intensity. Sometimes when I just sit in a trance staring at a piece of paper, pen… — Marlene Wagman-Geller Copy Share Image
Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“...that somewhere from amidst the welter of sound there will dart up, like a bird, a single authentic note of immortal longing.” — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I see you in my dreams and know you are there, but I still feel like I have lived my whole lifetime… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
All our longings for what is loving and true reach out into heaven. They put us in touch with angels who are… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Birthright citizenship in America is part of something larger: The American longing to sever from history, to be a place of new… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
Erotic longing is really a longing to merge with something greater than oneself. For every kind of love is a force that… — Julianne Davidow Copy Share Image
“Not caring about what others would think is the first item on the list of advice for anyone aspiring to do anything… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Thirsting desires and longings possessed my soul after perfect holiness. God was so precious to my soul that the world with all… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
“Beguiling, without doubt; the month of May scatters flowers - electrifying attributes, demanding and longing for the smell of love.” — Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann Copy Share Image
“It occurs to me that I really can't remember your face in any precise detail. Only the way you walked away through… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Sierra couldn’t afford complications, not in her position, but the way he flirted with her and teased had amped her touch hunger… — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
