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title: "Short Longing Words"
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> [My life is like an autumn leaf I lie around unclaimed. The breeze blows me around, To be trampled under the feet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/my-life-is-like-an-autumn-leaf-i-lie-around-unclaimed-the-breeze/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Gavin, I can’t talk to you here. People will call me crazy." My imaginary friend smirked. "But you’re already talking to me."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richelle-goodrich/gavin-i-can-t-talk-to-you-here-people-will-call-me-crazy-my-imaginary/)

[Richelle Goodrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richelle-goodrich/)

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> [“If only I could be here alone, without Judith or anyone, she thought with longing. Someday I am going to come back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-george-speare/if-only-i-could-be-here-alone-without-judith-or-anyone-she-thought/)

[Elizabeth George Speare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-george-speare/)

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> [“The devil puts before us every sort of thing we could want or desire. Our longing is pulled away from the things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-wolfmueller/the-devil-puts-before-us-every-sort-of-thing-we-could-want-or-desire/)

[Bryan Wolfmueller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bryan-wolfmueller/)

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> [“But if we look a little deeper we shall find there is a pathetic, one might almost say a tragic, side to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-k-jerome/but-if-we-look-a-little-deeper-we-shall-find-there-is-a-pathetic-one/)

[Jerome K. Jerome](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-k-jerome/)

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> [But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/but-often-in-the-world-s-most-crowded-streets-but-often-in-the-din-of/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

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> [This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-chekhov/this-longing-for-knowledge-makes-the-real-artist-brave-he-never/)

[Michael Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-chekhov/)

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> [“You make me thirsty, Promethea, my river, you make me eternally thirsty, my water. As if I had spent my life in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/you-make-me-thirsty-promethea-my-river-you-make-me-eternally-thirsty/)

[Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/)

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> [“I'm pulled, pushed and then I find my back against a wall. Eagan's taut frame is bent toward mine, and my body…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/petra-f-bagnardi/i-m-pulled-pushed-and-then-i-find-my-back-against-a-wall-eagan-s-taut/)

[Petra F. Bagnardi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/petra-f-bagnardi/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martins-paparde/i-m-comming-to-you-you-are-blazing-i-m-giving-you-a-rose-it-embalms/)

Martins Paparde

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> [Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ravi-zacharias/attempting-to-satisfy-the-passions-that-rage-inside-us-and-the/)

[Ravi Zacharias](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ravi-zacharias/)

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> [There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-kolodiejchuk/there-is-so-much-deep-contradiction-in-my-soul-such-deep-longing-for/)

[Brian Kolodiejchuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-kolodiejchuk/)

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> [“As soon as he heard of the Sillerton’s party he had said to himself that the Marchioness Manson would certainly come to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/as-soon-as-he-heard-of-the-sillerton-s-party-he-had-said-to-himself/)

[Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/)

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> [True values entail suffering. That’s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lars-von-trier/true-values-entail-suffering-that-s-the-way-we-think-all-in-all-we/)

[Lars von Trier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lars-von-trier/)

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> [“His hands tightened on her shoulders as the truth washed over him. My God, she really had told him yes. He opened…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-jewel/his-hands-tightened-on-her-shoulders-as-the-truth-washed-over-him-my/)

[Carolyn Jewel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-jewel/)

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> [For, as has been indicated from the innate experience as well as from the longings within, a home - home - with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-cayce/for-as-has-been-indicated-from-the-innate-experience-as-well-as-from/)

[Edgar Cayce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-cayce/)

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> [When his eyes gazed upon her, he thought of Mona Lisa. All these suitors going by looking at beautiful objects until they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-carlson/when-his-eyes-gazed-upon-her-he-thought-of-mona-lisa-all-these/)

[Joseph Carlson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-carlson/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-kingsley/these-glorious-things-words-are-man-s-right-alone-without-words-we/)

[Charles Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-kingsley/)

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> [“Gone as usual in the morning, and me left behind and naked, inner thighs lightly scaled with the dried spoor of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathe-koja/gone-as-usual-in-the-morning-and-me-left-behind-and-naked-inner/)

[Kathe Koja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathe-koja/)

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> [I've always been doing stuff, being creative. But I got to the point where I starting to feel this longing, craving, itchy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neneh-cherry/i-ve-always-been-doing-stuff-being-creative-but-i-got-to-the-point/)

[Neneh Cherry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neneh-cherry/)

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> [“I yearned for love, I prayed that love Would soften a way to my heart. To turn the sun where the shadows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juke-blue/i-yearned-for-love-i-prayed-that-love-would-soften-a-way-to-my-heart/)

Juke Blue

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> [artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-alda/artists-try-to-say-things-that-can-t-be-said-in-a-fragile-net-of/)

[Alan Alda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-alda/)

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> [“Why am I getting so worked up over this? Because I like him and I feel like he’s telling me, in code,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kristin-rae/why-am-i-getting-so-worked-up-over-this-because-i-like-him-and-i-feel/)

[Kristin Rae](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kristin-rae/)

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> [To a greater or lesser extent there goes on in every person a struggle between two forces: the longing for privacy and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-nabokov/to-a-greater-or-lesser-extent-there-goes-on-in-every-person-a/)

[Vladimir Nabokov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-nabokov/)

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> [“Lying half-asleep in his embrace, I looked up and saw on his face the same expression I saw on countless lonely faces…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kien-nguyen/lying-half-asleep-in-his-embrace-i-looked-up-and-saw-on-his-face-the/)

[Kien Nguyen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kien-nguyen/)

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> [“The word longing comes from the same root as the word long in the sense of length in either time or space…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-buechner/the-word-longing-comes-from-the-same-root-as-the-word-long-in-the/)

[Frederick Buechner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-buechner/)

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> [“Finding the Father My friend, this body offers to carry us for nothing– as the ocean carries logs. So on some days…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bly/finding-the-father-my-friend-this-body-offers-to-carry-us-for-nothing/)

[Robert Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bly/)

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> [People associate long hair with drug use. I wish people associated long hair with something other than drug use, like an extreme…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-hedberg/people-associate-long-hair-with-drug-use-i-wish-people-associated/)

[Mitch Hedberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-hedberg/)

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> [He and his wife loved each other and brought each other daily pain. Everything else he was doing in his life, even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-franzen/he-and-his-wife-loved-each-other-and-brought-each-other-daily-pain/)

[Jonathan Franzen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-franzen/)

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> [“Souls of love breathlessly sail Towards our time when hours fail To cope with longing here we are Chasing the speed of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/munia-khan/souls-of-love-breathlessly-sail-towards-our-time-when-hours-fail-to/)

[Munia Khan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/munia-khan/)

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> [It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-mae-weems/it-s-fair-to-say-that-black-folks-operate-under-a-cloud-of/)

[Carrie Mae Weems](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-mae-weems/)

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> [“What drew him back was something altogether more personal, to a history where, in the pain and longing of adolescence, he was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-malouf/what-drew-him-back-was-something-altogether-more-personal-to-a/)

[David Malouf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-malouf/)

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> [ “\[T\]he radical geographer Iain Boal had prophesied, "The longing for a better world will need to arise at the imagined meeting place… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-solnit/t-he-radical-geographer-iain-boal-had-prophesied-the-longing-for-a/)

[Rebecca Solnit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-solnit/)

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> [Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-maritain/poetic-experience-is-distinct-in-nature-from-mystical-experience/)

[Jacques Maritain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-maritain/)

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> [But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-jensen/but-what-precisely-is-hope-at-a-talk-i-gave-last-spring-someone-asked/)

[Derrick Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-jensen/)

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> [Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-postrel/glamour-is-an-imaginative-process-that-creates-a-specific-emotional/)

[Virginia Postrel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-postrel/)

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> [“People sometimes say that sorrow is mental but longing is physical. One is a wound, the other an amputated limb, a withered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fredrik-backman/people-sometimes-say-that-sorrow-is-mental-but-longing-is-physical/)

[Fredrik Backman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fredrik-backman/)

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> [“His love of the sea had profound roots: the hardworking artist's desire to rest, his longing to get away from the demanding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mann/his-love-of-the-sea-had-profound-roots-the-hardworking-artist-s/)

[Thomas Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mann/)

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> [There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-marx-hubbard/there-has-always-been-a-longing-in-the-human-heart-for-a-more-just/)

[Barbara Marx Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-marx-hubbard/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-pilger/the-attack-on-iraq-has-been-long-planned-there-just-hasn-t-been-an/)

[John Pilger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-pilger/)

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## Top authors on Longing

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- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-robert-bly-79540.jpg) Robert Bly 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/longing/robert-bly/)
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                        "text": "“Gavin, I can’t talk to you here. People will call me crazy.\" My imaginary friend smirked. \"But you’re already talking to me.\" \"Well, I have to stop.\" His smirk grew cocky. \"I doubt you can resist.\" And he was right. There was nothing I wanted more than to give my full attention to an imagined shadow and ignore those who ignored me in the real world. I wanted to talk out loud to Gavin―to play and laugh boisterously with him. In a dream I could justify such behavior, but to succumb to hallucinations while wide awake would only prove me insane.”",
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                        "text": "“The devil puts before us every sort of thing we could want or desire. Our longing is pulled away from the things that are good and pushed toward things that destroy life and peace. We delight so easily in the things of the world. Our attention is swept away with the troubles and excitements of this life. These things are all passing away. Only the Lord's Word endures forever (Isaiah 40:8, 1 Peter 1:25). His Word is our delight, and when we delight in His Word, we have life and peace.”",
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                        "text": "“But if we look a little deeper we shall find there is a pathetic, one might almost say a tragic, side to the picture. A shy man means a lonely man—a man cut off from all companionship, all sociability. He moves about the world, but does not mix with it. Between him and his fellow-men there runs ever an impassable barrier—a strong, invisible wall that, trying in vain to scale, he but bruises himself against. He sees the pleasant faces and hears the pleasant voices on the other side, but he cannot stretch his hand across to grasp another hand. He stands watching the merry groups, and he longs to speak and to claim kindred with them. But they pass him by, chatting gayly to one another, and he cannot stay them. He tries to reach them, but his prison walls move with him and hem him in on every side. In the busy street, in the crowded room, in the grind of work, in the whirl of pleasure, amid the many or amid the few—wherever men congregate together, wherever the music of human speech is heard and human thought is flashed from human eyes, there, shunned and solitary, the shy man, like a leper, stands apart. His soul is full of love and longing, but the world knows it not. The iron mask of shyness is riveted before his face, and the man beneath is never seen. Genial words and hearty greetings are ever rising to his lips, but they die away in unheard whispers behind the steel clamps. His heart aches for the weary brother, but his sympathy is dumb. Contempt and indignation against wrong choke up his throat, and finding no safety-valve whence in passionate utterance they may burst forth, they only turn in again and harm him. All the hate and scorn and love of a deep nature such as the shy man is ever cursed by fester and corrupt within, instead of spending themselves abroad, and sour him into a misanthrope and cynic.”",
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                        "text": "But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart which beats So wild, so deep in us—to know Whence our lives come and where they go.",
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                        "text": "This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he knows that this is not necessarily the richest and more correct. He sacrifices one images for another more intense and expressive, and he does this repeatedly until new and unknown visions strike him with their revealing spell.",
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                        "text": "“You make me thirsty, Promethea, my river, you make me eternally thirsty, my water. As if I had spent my life in an old house of dried mud, so dry myself that I could not even thirst, until yesterday. And suddenly yesterday, the dusty floor of my old house burst open and while I was still dozing away my parched existence, drop by drop I heard the music of coolness awaken the thirst under my dry soul. And leaning over the dark shaft of my life, I saw my childhood springs unearthed. Is that always how (by accident) we rediscover Magdalenian riches?”",
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                        "text": "“I'm pulled, pushed and then I find my back against a wall. Eagan's taut frame is bent toward mine, and my body is arched toward his. We create a peculiar sculpture of opposite forces. He cups my face in his palms and makes me look up at him. His lips are so close to mine, that I feel the whisper of his breath against my mouth; I smell mint and a hint of beer. I desire a kiss so desperately, my body is humming with longing. I curl my fingers around his wrists. “I hate fighting with you,” he admits huskily. “I know. Me too.” “I need to hold you.” I nod and let him fold his arms around me. I bury my face against his chest and utter soft sounds of contentment as his warmth leaks into my skin. I glance at our shadows painted on the gravel by darkness and streetlights; we're not opposite forces any longer, we're one single being. (\"A Veil of Glass and Rain\")”",
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                        "text": "“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 You. I melt and flow with You. Like an ice in a spring river. I melt and stay. Sun will vaporise us. It will take us up into clouds. And then we both will fall. Drop by drop. We'll fall out of the sky. We'll raise from dew to fog. Every sunny warm morning. We'll let the wind pull us with him. Cooling our selves in forest shadows. There in silence we'll cool off One from another. But in stormy days and nights. We'll billow and crash. One to another. Like crazy and wild. We'll churn into white foam. Ashore in sands we'll wait For the yellow october leaves Into them we'll fall asleep. We'll fall into and freeze. We'll freeze and melt again And flow and raise and fall again. Over and over again Even if we were in separete glasses of water. We would moove together and whisper. Even if in the oceans mixed. We would moove together and sing. I'm comming to You. You are blazing. I'm giving You a rose It embalms sweet. ... If I'll ever meet You. I' ll take our time... To dance dance dance dance with You...”",
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                        "text": "Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions, create new villains, turn our backs on Jesus, and blame a thousand tyrannies- but we never come to terms with the source of the problem deep within the heart and inclination of every human being.",
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                        "text": "There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful - a suffering continual - and yet not wanted by God - repulsed - empty - no faith - no love - no zeal. Souls hold no attraction - Heaven means nothing - to me it looks like an empty place - the thought of it means nothing to me and yet this torturing longing for God. Pray for me please that I keep smiling at Him in spite of everything. For I am only His - so He has every right over me. I am perfectly happy to be nobody even to God. . . . Your devoted child in J.C. M. Teresa",
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                        "text": "“As soon as he heard of the Sillerton’s party he had said to himself that the Marchioness Manson would certainly come to Newport with the Blenkers, and that Madame Olenska might again take the opportunity of spending the day with her grandmother. At any rate, the Blenker habitation would probably be deserted, and he would be able, without indiscretion, to satisfy a vague curiosity concerning it. He was not sure that he wanted to see the Countess Olenska again; but ever since he had looked at her from the path above the bay he had wanted, irrationally and indescribably, to see the place she was living in, and to follow the movements of her imagined figure as he had watched the real one in the summer-house. The longing was with him day and night, an incessant undefinable craving, like the sudden whim of a sick man for food or drink once tasted and long since forgotten. He could not see beyond the craving, or picture what it might lead to, for he was not conscious of any wish to speak to Madame Olenska or to hear her voice. He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.”",
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                        "text": "For, as has been indicated from the innate experience as well as from the longings within, a home - home - with all its deeper, inner meanings, is a portion of the entity's desire; to know, to experience, to have the \"feel\" of, to have the surroundings of that implied by the word home! Is it any wonder then that in all of thy meditation, Ohm-O-h-m-mmmmm has ever been, is ever a portion of that which raises self to the highest influence and the highest vibrations throughout its whole being that may be experienced by the entity?",
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                        "text": "When his eyes gazed upon her, he thought of Mona Lisa. All these suitors going by looking at beautiful objects until they came to her, they stop, they stare, they critique, they compare. In the end they won't find another that captivates their soul as she. Others have come before, others will come later, alas there is only one now, her.",
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                        "text": "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 of his fellow dog…for, if you will consider, you always think to yourself in words, though you do not speak them aloud; and without them all our thoughts would be mere blind longings, feelings which we could not understand ourselves.",
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                        "text": "“Gone as usual in the morning, and me left behind and naked, inner thighs lightly scaled with the dried spoor of our lovemaking: she liked to stay on top afterward and let the juice run down, and I liked whatever she liked. Imagining in the shower that I could smell her still, the angular scent of those secret bones, had she always smelled so fierce and so good? Recalling those gone times, old memories lit by the fire of the new, I did not this time wonder how long it would last; I was too smart for that now. Take what you get, and don’t think. Of course it could never be that easy, but there were moments, like now, that I could successfully pretend that it was, and I had no inclination to try to peer past those moments. I’m not one who wants to know the future: at the best it spoils the present, with longing or dismay, and at the worst, well. Who really wants to find out how tight the sling is, for your own very personal ass, who wants to know how deep the shit will really be? Not you. Not me either. Because it’s rarely bliss saved up, is it, when you finally get there. I’ll take my now, waking with a lover’s scent on me, around me, take my hopes before they’re maybe tragedy; a good morning is still a good morning, even if it leads to apocalypse at night.”",
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                        "text": "I've always been doing stuff, being creative. But I got to the point where I starting to feel this longing, craving, itchy feeling - which was the first sign that it was time. I've made a few attempts to make other solo records, but when I've looked back at the body of work I've always felt like I was never quite there.",
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                        "text": "“I yearned for love, I prayed that love Would soften a way to my heart. To turn the sun where the shadows run And banish the cold and the dark. Yet all I am is a faint mirage Fashioned in light of your dream; Longing to love, and longing to leave, Held forever by the walls unseen.”",
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                        "text": "artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling; a taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.",
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                        "text": "“Why am I getting so worked up over this? Because I like him and I feel like he’s telling me, in code, that I’m not worth his time. That starting something with me would be a mistake. I’m officially giving up being logical about this. He should too. I already know it’s going to suck saying good-bye, so he should kiss me and at least give me a tingly memory to take back with me. “I might be different.” I clench my teeth when I realize I said that out loud, keeping myself from saying any more. “Pippa.” He breathes a sigh, eyes looking everywhere but at me. “You are different.” I slowly turn toward him on the bench, pleading with my eyes for him to look at me. Footsteps crunching gravel behind me rob me of my daydream, and an older couple approaches the metal railing near the cliff edge. The tired-looking woman glances back at the bench with longing. “You can sit here,” Darren says to her. He clasps my hand, sending a current up my arm to my chest. “We were just leaving.” He leads me back down the path and for the brief moment he keeps hold of my hand, it’s the only thing anchoring me to the ground.”",
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                        "text": "To a greater or lesser extent there goes on in every person a struggle between two forces: the longing for privacy and the urge to go places: the introversion, interest directed within oneself toward one's own inner life of vigorous thought and fancy; and extroversion, interest directed outward, toward the external world of people and tangible values.",
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                        "text": "“Lying half-asleep in his embrace, I looked up and saw on his face the same expression I saw on countless lonely faces every day. It was the homesick look of the children who were lost in the chaos of warfare, witnessing death and disaster, longing for a meaningful touch.”",
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                        "text": "“The word longing comes from the same root as the word long in the sense of length in either time or space and also the word belong, so that in its full richness to long suggests to yearn for a long time for something that is a long way off and something that we feel we belong to and that belongs to us. The longing for home is so universal a form of longing that there is even a special word for it, which is of course homesickness,”",
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                        "text": "“Finding the Father My friend, this body offers to carry us for nothing– as the ocean carries logs. So on some days the body wails with its great energy; it smashes up the boulders, lifting small crabs, that flow around the sides. Someone knocks on the door. We do not have time to dress. He wants us to go with him through the blowing and rainy streets, to the dark house. We will go there, the body says, and there find the father whom we have never met, who wandered out in a snowstorm the night we were born, and who then lost his memory, and has lived since longing for his child, whom he saw only once… while he worked as a shoemaker, as a cattle herder in Australia, as a restaurant cook who painted at night. When you light the lamp you will see him. He sits there behind the door… the eyebrows so heavy, the forehead so light… lonely in his whole body, waiting for you.”",
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                        "text": "He and his wife loved each other and brought each other daily pain. Everything else he was doing in his life, even his longing for Lalitha, amounted to little more than flight from circumstance. He and Patty couldn't live together and couldn't imagine living apart. Each time he thought they'd reached the unbearable breaking point, it turned out that there was still further they could go without breaking.",
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                        "text": "“What drew him back was something altogether more personal, to a history where, in the pain and longing of adolescence, he was still standing on the corner of Queen and Albert Streets waiting for someone that he knew would never appear. He had long understood that one of his selves, the earliest and most vulnerable, had never left this place, and this original and clearest view of things could be recovered only through what had first come to him in the glow of its ordinary light and weather...it was the light they appeared in that was the point, and that at least had not changed.”",
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                        "text": "“[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.”",
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                        "text": "Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the very start oriented toward expression, and terminates in a word proffered, it wants to speak; whereas mystical because it emanates from the deepest longing of the spirit bent on knowing, tends of itself toward silence and internal fruition. Poetic experience is busy with the created world and the enigmatic and innumerable relations of existents with one another, not with the Principle of Being.",
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                        "text": "But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question back on the audience, and here’s the definition we all came up with: hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.",
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                        "text": "Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy.",
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                        "text": "“People sometimes say that sorrow is mental but longing is physical. One is a wound, the other an amputated limb, a withered petal compared to a snapped stem. Anything that grows closely enough to what it loves will eventually share the same roots. We can talk about loss, we can treat it and give it time, but biology still forces us to live according to certain rules: plants that are split down the middle don’t heal, they die.”",
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                        "text": "“His love of the sea had profound roots: the hardworking artist's desire to rest, his longing to get away from the demanding diversity of phenomena and take shelter in the bosom of simplicity and immensity; a forbidden penchant that was entirely antithetical to his mission and, for that very reason, seductive-a proclivity for the unorganized, the immeasurable, the eternal: for nothingness.”",
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                        "text": "There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations, because we had neither the evolutionary drivers and global crises to force us to change, nor did we have the scientific and technological powers that can free us from the limitations of scarcity, poverty, disease, and ignorance. This is the time of awakening for the social potential movement.",
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                        "text": "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 Saddam in 1991, there's been a longing among the extreme right in the United States to finish the job. The war on terrorism has given them that opportunity. Even though the logic is convoluted and fraudulent, it appears they are going to go ahead and finish the job.",
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