I have a longing for violin or organ. Is it too simple to say those sustaining sounds symbolise immortality? — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Truth is, youll meet hundreds of thousands of people but youre only going to lie awake thinking of one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“That the real source of all true longing is the human desire to attach ourselves to something infinite.” — Shmuley Boteach Copy Share Image
I pray for salvation, pray for a sweet conversation, the problems not with you, it's without you — Secondhand Serenade Copy Share Image
A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“When you enter the New Year with longing for the old year, you break the heart of the New Year and you… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the '90s, the radio was still alive with all different kinds of points of view, and I think that's why people… — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
“Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fear is an orphaned part of us seeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
'The Babadook,' written and directed by a woman, is a gorgeously told female-focused story of grief, longing, loneliness, and what mourning can… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come… — Anni Albers Copy Share Image
At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for… — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
His breath in my ear, he ran his tongue along the curved edge, sucking the fleshy lobe and my small diamond stud… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
“A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“The more formidable the contradiction between inexhaustible life-joy and inevitable fate, the greater the longing which reveals itself in the kingdom of… — Ferdinand Cohn Copy Share Image
“Each one of us is longing only for health and happiness, in search of a way of living in the world that… — Woodson Merrell Copy Share Image
“When she's next to him, when she rests her hand on his, his whole body aches with something like knowledge for all… — Brady Udall Copy Share Image
A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“The Portuguese word saudade has no direct English translation; applied to a range of human experience it conveys longing, nostalgia, homesickness, the… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share Image
“To my unsuspecting love. When I look into your eyes, I lose all sense of time and place. Reason robbed, clear thought… — Julianne Donaldson Copy Share Image
Be patient, my friends; time rolls rapidly away; our longing has its end. The hour will strike, who knows how soon?- when… — Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher Copy Share Image
