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In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden.

Dorothy Richardson
longing shadow garden
Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion... by E. L. Doctorow

Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.

E. L. Doctorow
longing passion world

Images break with a small ping, their destruction is as wonderful as their being, they are essentially instruments of torture exploding through the individual's calloused capacity to feel undifferentiated emotions full of longing and dissatisfaction and monumentality.

E. L. Doctorow
longing emotion wonderful
My longing for truth was a single prayer. by Edith Stein

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

Edith Stein
longing catholic prayer
Longing alone is singer to the lute. by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Longing alone is singer to the lute.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
longing singers
For the body at best by Edna St. Vincent Millay

For the body at best

Edna St. Vincent Millay
longing cry body

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

Eliza Griswold
longing suffering thinking

I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from a place of deep, sad longing to be loved and to have it proven that you are of value.

Elizabeth Gilbert
steep longing pay
To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance... by Elizabeth Gilbert

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

Elizabeth Gilbert
longing shows clever

Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.

Ellen Glasgow
longing law memories
Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly by Elmer Diktonius

Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly

Elmer Diktonius
longing bird
longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a... by Elizabeth Gilbert

longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness

Elizabeth Gilbert
longing madness kind
Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground by Emily Dickinson

Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground

Emily Dickinson
seeds longing
All human eyes have longing in them. by Ernesto Cardenal

All human eyes have longing in them.

Ernesto Cardenal
longing eye humans
Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive. by Erwin McManus

Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.

Erwin McManus
longing instinct alive

It's not so difficult to acknowledge that we lack wisdom. When we pray and seek God's wisdom with a longing for a deeper fullness of the life of Christ, then we will always find something to pursue.

Esther Smith
longing daily-life praying

Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the one you are with; you are not liking the person you have become.

Esther Perel
longing existential sometimes
Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God. by Evelyn Underhill

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

Evelyn Underhill
longing passionate soul
Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and... by Fernando Pessoa

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

Fernando Pessoa
book-of-disquiet longing might

I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can you conceive of life apart from Him?

Frank W. Boreham
longing secret life-is
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