Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When one does look up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray. — Opal Whiteley Copy Share Image
A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting. — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings? — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses. — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love… — Sarah Doudney Copy Share Image
The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I regard longings for twinship or emotional kinship as being reactive to emotional trauma, with its accompanying feelings of singularity, estrangement, and… — Robert D. Stolorow Copy Share Image
“I have become a sour woman. I take no joy in meat nor mead, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that we do the same with our deepest longings for God. God does not always come… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why… — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
“Year after year of dirty snow and bitter winds… houses and whole districts of people who aren’t really unhappy, but worse, who… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
“Some of the streets are, however, genuinely narrow. These same streets may not be filled with machine-gun fire and the dramatic screech… — John Dolan Copy Share Image
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“WHATEVER THE SOUL IS TAUGHT to expect, that it will build. Our heart longings, our soul aspirations, are something more than mere… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Trifles cannot satisfy our longings. Sensual pleasures, power over our fellow man, the acquisition of things, these are babbles, toys, trifles. Our… — Vaughn Heppner Copy Share Image
“At some time all cities have this feel: in London it's at five or six on a winer evening. Paris has it… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“Tell it, Fanny. About the crowds, streets, buildings, lights, about the whirligig of loneliness, about the humpty-dumpty clutter of longings. And then… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
“The Marquess shrugged. “I’m a shadow. I do know I am a shadow, Iago. I know most of the time. It’s only… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“We are doomed to remain incomplete in our present existence. Our hopes and deepest longings will remain nothing but just that; Our… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me;… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“They were very bitter tears: everybody in the world seemed so hard and unkind to Maggie: there was no indulgence, no fondness,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Imaginings and resonances and pain and small longings and prejudices. They mean nothing against the resolute hardness of the sea. They meant… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“For your sake poets sequester themselves, gather images to churn the mind, journey forth, ripening with metaphor, and all their lives they… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
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