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• Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union

  Rollo May

  Love, Life, Funny Relationship

  "Love and Will". Book by Rollo May (p. 313), 1969.

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• Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as well admit there’s some of that too.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sadness, Voice, Guilt

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.14, Scholastic Inc.

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• Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had love him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death. (Love in the Time of Cholera)

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Eye, Past, Light

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• The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you.

  Meindert DeJong

  Train, Restlessness

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• Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their loves. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that care nothing for hope or longing.

  Jon Krakauer

  Thinking, Alaska, Long

  "Into the Wild". Book by Jon Krakauer, 1996.

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• There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?

  Thomas Mann

  Lying, Artist, Simple

  "Death in Venice". Book by Thomas Mann, translated by David Luke. Chapter 3, 1912.

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• Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream of a blessedness that may someday be again.

  Frederick Buechner

  Dream, Memories, Paradise

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• And we'd look at each other the way you do when you see someone on the street you think you recognize, but not quite. Someone you wish with all your heart were there but who is actually just a stranger. And you feel a kind of deep longing that hurts like a huge gash and your inability to fix it leaves you frustrated and angry and bone-deep lonely.

  Michele Jaffe

  Lonely, Hurt, Heart

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• The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love's fire. So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love You, Fire, Risk

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• And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

  Khalil Gibran

  Past, Remembrance, Embrace

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.100, Lulu.com

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• God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.

  N. T. Wright

  Relationship, Beauty, Faith

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• How wonderful," he purred. "I've been longing to speak to you for days, Princess Cecelia." "And I've been wanting to kick you in the shin for days.

  Jessica Day George

  Princess, Speak, Wonderful

  Jessica Day George (2014). “Tuesdays at the Castle”, p.187, A&C Black

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• Suddenly his expression turned to alarm. He sprinted toward us. For a moment I had an absurd vision of myself on the cover of one of Gran’s old romance novels, where the damsel wilts into the arms of one half-dressed beefy guy while another stands by,casting her longing looks. Oh, the horrible choices a girl must make! I wished I’d had a moment to clean up. I was still covered in dried river muck, twine, and grass, like I’d been tarred and feathered. Then Anubis pushed past me and gripped Walt’s shoulders. Well…that was unexpected.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Past, Expression

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• His breath in my ear, he ran his tongue along the curved edge, sucking the fleshy lobe and my small diamond stud into his mouth, and my eyes drifted closed while I babbled a weak sound of longing.

  Tammara Webber

  Eye, Sound, Ears

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• In that last dance of chances I shall partner you no more. I shall watch another turn you As you move across the floor. In that last dance of chances When I bid your life goodbye I will hope she treats you kindly. I will hope you learn to fly. In that last dance of chances When I know you'll not be mine I will let you go with longing And the hope that you'll be fine. In that last dance of chances We shall know each other's minds. We shall part with our regrets When the tie no longer binds.

  Robin Hobb

  Goodbye, Regret, Moving

  Robin Hobb (2004). “Fool's Fate: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.1066, Spectra

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• Witch, do this for me, Find me a moon made of longing. Then cut it sliver thin, and having cut it, hang it high above my beloved's house, so that she may look up tonight and see it, and seeing it, sigh for me as I sigh for her, moon or no moon.

  Clive Barker

  Cutting, Moon, House

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• Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Strong, Spring, Land

  Vladimir Nabokov (1970). “Mary: A Novel”, Vintage Books

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• Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

  Laura Lippman

  Want, Moments

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• Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Reality, Messages

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.115, Lulu.com

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• It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically, or sexually. Always there seems something ahead, the next poem or story, visible, at least, apprehensible, but unreachable. To perceive it at all is to be haunted by it; some sound, some tone, becomes a torment — the poem embodying that sound seems to exist somewhere already finished. It’s like a lighthouse, except that, as one swims towards it, it backs away.

  Louise Glück

  Art, Swim, Desire

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• Mornings at Blackwater" For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt, the feet of ducks. And always it assuaged me from the dry bowl of the very far past. What I want to say is that the past is the past, and the present is what your life is, and you are capable of choosing what that will be, darling citizen. So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Past, Years

  Mary Oliver (2008). “Red Bird: Poems”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Dream, Disappointment, Better Life

  Julie Anne Peters (2008). “Luna”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Regret, Wish, Desire

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.269, University of Illinois Press

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• Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Bridges, Shapes, Crosses

  "Tigana". Book by Guy Gavriel Kay, 1990.

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• nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for Weak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected. Manifests itself in humans as a feeling of missing a place one has never been, a place very much like one’s home universe, or as a longing for versions of one’s self that one will never, and can never know.

  Charles Yu

  Home, Self, Two

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.47, Vintage

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