Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future. — Erwin McManus 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
“We keep inventing new things that make new longings, new holes that must be filled.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for. — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants. — Robert Breault 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
“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
“That is the beauty of literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you are not lonely and isolated from… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
There is no man on the face of the earth who can satisfy the deepest longings of a woman's heart--God made us… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
“4. "Outward longings will drive you from the eden within; they offer false pleasures that only impersonate the souls happiness, The lost… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“He knew now that when power and ambition and curiosity were satisfied, there still were left the longings of the heart. No… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“... this stray little thought released in him some echo of the past, a solitary trembling note whose sound rose higher and… — Olga Grushin Copy Share Image
I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Out of infinite longings rise finite deeds like weak fountains, falling back just in time and trembling. And yet, what otherwise remains… — Rainer Maria Rilke 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
“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
“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
“[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
“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
“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
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
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“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
“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
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