We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib Copy Share Image
Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest… — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
“Love is your addiction to an eternal longing for someone...A thirst which one cannot relinquish” — Seema Gupta Copy Share Image
“It’s amazing how nostalgia filters out the bad and focuses only on the good.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When I start laughing, for no reason, out of nowhere, just know that I'm thinking of you, and all the memories we… — Hannah Prokosch Copy Share Image
Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open,… — Franz Grillparzer 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
The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or… — Epes Sargent Copy Share Image
“I have a moment where I finally realize that the aching heart, the longing, the grief, the insanity...I finally get it after… — Lauren Hammond Copy Share Image
“She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“This little theater of mine has as many doors into as many boxes as you please, ten or a hundred thousand, and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He undressed, lay down, put out the light. Two names he whispered into his pillow, the few chaste northern syllables that meant… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“In its greatest moments, memory seems to desert human beings ; only tiny ordinary events leave clear detailed trace. Probably none at… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“At this time in his life Zinkoff sees no difference between the stars in the sky and the stars in his mother's… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Despite your best efforts and intentions, there's a limited reservoir to fellowship before you begin to rely solely on the vapors of… — Don Lee Copy Share Image
“...a domino line of laughter, but with an edge to it, a longing, an awe, and many of the watchers realized with… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
