My life is like an autumn leaf I lie around unclaimed. The breeze blows me around, To be trampled under the feet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Gavin, I can’t talk to you here. People will call me crazy." My imaginary friend smirked. "But you’re already talking to me."… — Richelle Goodrich Copy Share Image
“If only I could be here alone, without Judith or anyone, she thought with longing. Someday I am going to come back… — Elizabeth George Speare Copy Share Image
“The devil puts before us every sort of thing we could want or desire. Our longing is pulled away from the things… — Bryan Wolfmueller Copy Share Image
“But if we look a little deeper we shall find there is a pathetic, one might almost say a tragic, side to… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
“You make me thirsty, Promethea, my river, you make me eternally thirsty, my water. As if I had spent my life in… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“I'm pulled, pushed and then I find my back against a wall. Eagan's taut frame is bent toward mine, and my body… — Petra F. Bagnardi Copy Share Image
“I'm comming to You. You are blazing. I'm giving You a rose. It embalms sweet. I'm givin a kiss... I melt of… — Martins Paparde Copy Share Image
Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions,… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful -… — Brian Kolodiejchuk Copy Share Image
“As soon as he heard of the Sillerton’s party he had said to himself that the Marchioness Manson would certainly come to… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
True values entail suffering. That’s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
“His hands tightened on her shoulders as the truth washed over him. My God, she really had told him yes. He opened… — Carolyn Jewel Copy Share Image
For, as has been indicated from the innate experience as well as from the longings within, a home - home - with… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
When his eyes gazed upon her, he thought of Mona Lisa. All these suitors going by looking at beautiful objects until they… — Joseph Carlson Copy Share Image
These glorious things-words-are man's right alone...Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Gone as usual in the morning, and me left behind and naked, inner thighs lightly scaled with the dried spoor of our… — Kathe Koja Copy Share Image
I've always been doing stuff, being creative. But I got to the point where I starting to feel this longing, craving, itchy… — Neneh Cherry Copy Share Image
“I yearned for love, I prayed that love Would soften a way to my heart. To turn the sun where the shadows… — Juke Blue Copy Share Image
artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“Why am I getting so worked up over this? Because I like him and I feel like he’s telling me, in code,… — Kristin Rae 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
![“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)
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