It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
“Souls of love breathlessly sail Towards our time when hours fail To cope with longing here we are Chasing the speed of… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
To a greater or lesser extent there goes on in every person a struggle between two forces: the longing for privacy and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Lying half-asleep in his embrace, I looked up and saw on his face the same expression I saw on countless lonely faces… — Kien Nguyen Copy Share Image
“The word longing comes from the same root as the word long in the sense of length in either time or space… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Finding the Father My friend, this body offers to carry us for nothing– as the ocean carries logs. So on some days… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
He and his wife loved each other and brought each other daily pain. Everything else he was doing in his life, even… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
People associate long hair with drug use. I wish people associated long hair with something other than drug use, like an extreme… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
“His love of the sea had profound roots: the hardworking artist's desire to rest, his longing to get away from the demanding… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“People sometimes say that sorrow is mental but longing is physical. One is a wound, the other an amputated limb, a withered… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
The attack on Iraq has been long planned. There just hasn't been an excuse for it. Since George H.W. Bush didn't unseat… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“What drew him back was something altogether more personal, to a history where, in the pain and longing of adolescence, he was… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“[T]he radical geographer Iain Boal had prophesied, "The longing for a better world will need to arise at the imagined meeting place… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“On more than one occasion I have been ready to abandon my whole life for love. To alter everything that makes sense… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Shrinking in a corner, pressed into the wall; do they know I'm present, am I here at all? Is there a written… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“…The truth: dreaming is lonely the further away the closer to this one time No one has held me for so long… — Angkarn Chanthathip Copy Share Image
We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“These transient “tastes of the wild” come during the mystique of inspiration—ah, there it is; oh, now it has gone. The longing… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
“I am torn in two’ […] ‘Poor Sam! It might feel like that, I’m afraid,’ said Frodo. ‘But you will be healed.… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater. Lying awake, I… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“In truth isn't it a waiting that never ends like the chasm between the cycles of the world Between separation and union… — Tishani Doshi Copy Share Image
“You once shared with me the essence of love: to prioritize another's happiness and fulfilment. Today, I honour that wisdom by choosing… — Shahid Hussain Raja Copy Share Image
“There is a hunger in every human heart, which nothing can satisfy or appease — a hunger for something more true than… — G. de Purucker Copy Share Image
I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
Communism is an aspiration, an aspiration is an ideal, a dream, a longing of something that would be perfect, but hard to… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
“They that have beauty, let them be thankful for it, and make a good use of it, let them console themselves, and… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“When I have not rage or sorrow, and you depart from me, then I am most afraid. When the belly is full,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Out of… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“People are bound to remain anxious if there is a "should" in life. If there is an ideal that has to be… — osho Copy Share Image
“The ocean of the past, I still hide from so much of it and rely on all that I don't run from.… — Edward J Rathke Copy Share Image
“Plain Kate greased her boots and bandaged her feet, and soon she would walk like a Roamer born. She helped Drina with… — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
![“It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central to [my photographs]... This invisibility - this erasure out of the complex history of our life and time - is the greatest source of my longing.” quote by Carrie Mae Weems](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/344/carrie-mae-weems-24837_black_it-s-fair-to-say-that-black-folks-operat_1875928.jpg)
![“[T]he radical geographer Iain Boal had prophesied, "The longing for a better world will need to arise at the imagined meeting place of many movements of resistance, as many as there are sites of closure and exclusion. The resistance will be as transnational capitalism.” quote by Rebecca Solnit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26e/rebecca-solnit-569_better-world_t-he-radical-geographer-iain-boal-had-pr_2016400.png)
![“I am torn in two’ […] ‘Poor Sam! It might feel like that, I’m afraid,’ said Frodo. ‘But you will be healed. You were meant to be solid and whole, and you will be.’ [...] ‘Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much…” quote by J. R. R. Tolkien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/084/j-r-r-tolkien-2-1316_family_i-am-torn-in-two-poor-sam-it-might-feel_1867843.png)
