Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge… — Aldous Huxley 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
The longing to be holy makes us weep, and we trust tears since they are made of water and come from our… — Deborah Keenan Copy Share Image
There is nothing on earth that can satisfy our deepest longing. We long to see God. The leaves of life are rustling… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“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
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
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
No word can describe the feeling that I have in my heart. No person alive can. But it can be felt. That… — Demetria Black Copy Share Image
Spirituality is best manifested on the ground, not in the air. Rapturous day-dreams, flights of heavenly fancy, longings to see the Invisible,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
“[comrades] are ashes, entrails, dung, stove smoke, clay, and they’ll all return to clay. They’re full of dirt, candle oil, droppings, dust.… — Tatyana Tolstaya Copy Share Image
In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant,… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“A permanent dull ache spread from my belly to my chest. I thought I could feel pinpricks of loneliness in the pads… — Susan Power Copy Share Image
“How about this?” she retorted, her voice deceptively flirtatious, and in that small, stolen moment in his mind, he quickly spun and… — J. Tonzelli Copy Share Image
Without the power of intelligence there is no capacity for spiritual knowledge; and without spiritual knowledge we cannot have the faith from… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I wonder how many people wake up each day to face or hide from emptiness. Emptiness in a job, relationship, pursuit and… — Trinity Chasara 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
We seek fulfillment in our lives through heart connection with others. This is our soul's essence of joy, which spontaneously pulses through… — John Friend Copy Share Image
Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
“Caleb was like a hurricane that swept through my life, stirring up things inside of me that I never knew existed. He… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
Dear ex, best friend, crush and close homie. Do you think about me as much as I think bout you? I sure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moving from unbelief, to Evangelicalism, and finally home to the Catholic Church, Professor Holly Ordway reveals how a gifted mind, longing for… — Francis J. Beckwith Copy Share Image
Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“what despair to see a woman one loves longing for those thousand nothings from which women compose their happiness, and to be… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“All they did was stir up desire, and longing, and hopelessness, a trio of miserable caged wildcats that had been installed in… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Every adventure I've ever had with love and photography has ended in a similar misadventure. As is often the case, the rush… — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
![“[comrades] are ashes, entrails, dung, stove smoke, clay, and they’ll all return to clay. They’re full of dirt, candle oil, droppings, dust. You, O Book, my pure, shining precious, my golden singing promise, my dream, a distant call— O tender specter, happy chance, Again I heed the ancient lore…” quote by Tatyana Tolstaya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/437/tatyana-tolstaya-25610_books_comrades-are-ashes-entrails-dung-stove-s_2528700.jpg)
