Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“You can learn a lot about the longings and generalized gender anxieties of an era by the kinds of fake women it… — Carina Chocano 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
“The song and the silence in the heart, That in part are prophecies, and in part Are longings wild and vain” — Longfellow Copy Share Image
Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings? — Amos Oz 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
“Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain.” — Jack London 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
The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition,… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“My hearts been fleeting up so high,I'm longing for the leaps of the day & heaps of the night to pace my… — Madhushree Das Copy Share Image
“He turned to appease the fierce longings of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
To whet our longings for fruitive or experimental knowledge, it is reserved among the prerogatives of being in heaven, to know how… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
“He looked like someone pretending to be a knight, which was bad. He figured pretending to be something he actually wanted to… — Liam Perrin Copy Share Image
“My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September days! How silent, how lifeless!” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of… — S. D Gordon Copy Share Image
Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are… — Judith Butler 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“The correspondence testifies to the frailty of human longings, to the process of how something precious can turn fatal, a reality become… — Karina Szczurek Copy Share Image
“Later, you told me what your mother had said. How your father, the farmer, rose up slowly. You told me how your… — Jon Gresham 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Many adults, in the indurated immobility of years, acquire a fear of places they have never been, even as they long for… — Steven Erikson 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
