“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
“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
“I am a creature of grief and dust and utter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of… — Therese of Lisieux 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
“Longings. What is there to say about longings that hasn't already been said?” — Gail Hareven Copy Share Image
...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for. — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
“We keep inventing new things that make new longings, new holes that must be filled.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them… — C.P. Cavafy 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
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
“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
“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
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 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
“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
“Lonely Balcony The deterioration brought by weariness was visible. Its burden of abandonment can be perceived at a glance. The balcony ache… — iqra iqbal Copy Share Image
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,… — Mark Twain 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
“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
“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
The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the… — Herbert Marcuse 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
“And the crazy part of it was even if you were clever, even if you spent your adolescence reading John Donne and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Have you really not noticed, then, that here of all places, in this private, personal solitude that surrounds me, I have turned… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Let it all go to waste… For what I long for, I’m bound to resign! Bittersweet is, like the taste of wine,… — Aleksandra Ninkovic Copy Share Image
“He knew now that when power and ambition and curiosity were satisfied, there still were left the longings of the heart.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future. — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
“Today the clerk in the fancy deli next door asked me how I was, and I said, 'I have deep longings that… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake. — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
“If it were possible to create objects to meet one’s deepest longings then nobody would need God.” — Eliza Granville Copy Share Image
Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants. — Robert Breault 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
Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
