Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“She brushed the tears from their faces and sang them a melancholy lullaby. Her obvious devotion to her daughters pulled at my… — A.B. Shepherd Copy Share Image
People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision… — Rani Mukerji Copy Share Image
“If you can repress for a moment your spinster-like longing to meddle in my affairs,’ said Lymond cuttingly, from the door, ‘I… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The bible never belittles disappointment, but it does add one key word: temporary - What we feel now, we will not always… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“... deep inside you was a frantic longing to be something or someone other than you are. It is the greatest scourge… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring,… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
“The lamplight was warm and the apartment still and snug. At home in bed, in my private abyss of longing, the scenes… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“But the longing within him had grown even greater, the overpowering need to be alone. Locked in an empty room, entirely unwitnessed,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“One evening he was in his room, his brow pressing hard against the pane, looking, without seeing them, at the chestnut trees… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“As we lifted off, China growing ever more distant from the window-seat, the endless ocean opening up before us, I was torn… — Megan Rich Copy Share Image
“The last clear thought I have is of my grandmother’s rust-colored wall clock ticking away in the darkness of my apartment—my sanctuary… — J. Tonzelli Copy Share Image
People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
Looking back, I see that I was born with the subtle sense that material treasures alone, no matter how grand, would never… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
People come and go , they disappoint me and such, but my Lord doesn't. It makes my longing for Him even more,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it, but longing to degrade not even death; we shall learn earthliness, and serve its… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love,… — Martin Prechtel Copy Share Image
“Is this crushing loneliness I feel just for you, or is it really, underneath, the harsh metallic edge of existential longing?" "That's… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
“Long past the moment when her neck begins to stiffen and ache, she continues to stare into the darkness, even though none… — Larry Watson Copy Share Image
“If she could make this journey three times a week while seven-year-old Sierra was at school---then she could get through another long,… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
Longing hurts. but sometimes it's good to miss because only the longing shows the true importance that a person has in your… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
“The trouble with magic was that is was messy and dangerous and filled with longing. There were too many moments that made… — Karen Foxlee Copy Share Image
“Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“One of the strongest things I have had to wrestle with in my life is the significance of the longing for perfection… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Short on all the things I don't want, I'm full of love and longing. Take me by the hand and tell me,… — Sara Quin Copy Share Image
What is remarkable about Joy Division is the way they are bereft of two of the mainstays of most other rock and… — Mark Fisher 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
“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
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
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
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
