It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots,… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
“You don’t know how you feel about us.” It’s not a question. Her eyes touch mine, searching. “No. Yes. I do –… — S.L. Jennings Copy Share Image
“His strides are the only evidence he exists, and so he wanders, lost in a city that he has always called home.… — Krishna Udayasankar Copy Share Image
Our most meaningful relationships are based on a longing for expansion rather than a preoccupation with comfort and security. To live exuberantly-to… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“By-and-by Jo roamed away upstairs, for it was rainy, and she could not walk. A restless spirit possessed her, and the old… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I knew, even as we touched that I had never wanted anything more in all my life. All my crabbed cravings were… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
“New York may end up being no more than a scrim, a spectral film that is none other than our craving for… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Songs of longing! And they will resound in my letters, just as they always have, sometimes loudly and sometimes secretly so that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Wine is a sign of happiness, love and plenty, how many of our adolescents and young people sense that these are no… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“I don’t understand.” Except, truthfully, I just didn’t want to understand. Pain shadowed across his face. “Darkness lives in me, Theia. Inside… — Gwen Hayes Copy Share Image
I want to be your everything, the way you're mine. Your smile lights up my day and I can't stop smiling. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The desire to transcend one's own ego boundaries, to share completely, even for a moment, the consciousness of another person must be… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
“The Portuguese call it saudade: a longing for something so indefinite as to be indefinable. Love affairs, miseries of life, the way… — Anthony De Sa Copy Share Image
“My child, I know you're not a child But I still see you running wild Between those flowering trees. Your sparkling dreams,… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
And we'd look at each other the way you do when you see someone on the street you think you recognize, but… — Michele Jaffe Copy Share Image
“The moments of nature's universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind works harder, poetic thoughts seethe more ardently,… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Being alone is not the most awful thing in the world. You visit your museums and cultivate your interests and remind yourself… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
“When we create a life based on what we think we are supposed to do rather than from our own heart's desire,… — HeatherAsh Amara Copy Share Image
“You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim of the sky will be the colour of… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
In the cocoon, there is no idea of light at all, until we experience some longing for openness, some longing for something… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“When I am not with you I am alone, For there is no one else And there is nothing That comforts me… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“I'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I kind of roll my eyes when people say they make music for themselves or they make art just for themselves, because,… — Arca Copy Share Image
Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I call him my friend, but in the last year it's seemed too casual a word for what Gale is to me.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Spirituality is best manifested on the ground, not in the air. Rapturous day-dreams, flights of heavenly fancy, longings to see the Invisible,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
“[comrades] are ashes, entrails, dung, stove smoke, clay, and they’ll all return to clay. They’re full of dirt, candle oil, droppings, dust.… — Tatyana Tolstaya Copy Share Image
In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant,… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“A permanent dull ache spread from my belly to my chest. I thought I could feel pinpricks of loneliness in the pads… — Susan Power Copy Share Image
“How about this?” she retorted, her voice deceptively flirtatious, and in that small, stolen moment in his mind, he quickly spun and… — J. Tonzelli Copy Share Image
Without the power of intelligence there is no capacity for spiritual knowledge; and without spiritual knowledge we cannot have the faith from… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I wonder how many people wake up each day to face or hide from emptiness. Emptiness in a job, relationship, pursuit and… — Trinity Chasara Copy Share Image
“A woman wishes to be swept up by a man’s fervent feelings for her, by love and longing and depth of feeling.… — Melanie Dickerson Copy Share Image
“The experienced feel love or desire, or both. The inexperienced are sick with a thousand feelings, most of them unformed: fearful that… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Through winter-time we call on spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when the abounding hedges ring Declare that winter's… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
No word can describe the feeling that I have in my heart. No person alive can. But it can be felt. That… — Demetria Black Copy Share Image
It is a matter of glimpsing that in God's new creation, of which Jesus's resurrection is the start, all that was good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image