My longing for someone to talk to made Himillsy the lightning bug in my honey jar. I punched holes in the lid so she could breathe. - Chip Kidd Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to? - Ayn Rand

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it. - Shmuel Y Agnon A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. - Hermann Hesse In all my longing for a family and a home, I'd never quite been able to decide what they should have looked like. But this house looks and feels so right, so perfect, it seems impossible any other place would suit me half so well. - Lisa Kleypas And that's what we're truly longing for. On those weekends when we're suddenly gripped with the urge to watch all three extended editions of The Lord of the Rings, what we really want, deep down inside (besides therapy), is the assurance that there is a realm someplace where evil has been conquered once and for all. - Sarah Arthur On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed, could never exist agai...