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“I don’t think we ever really live in the present; instead, we’re either just this side of the past or future, wavering anxiously between anticipation and recollection. That’s where I lived my life, always wanting, longing, wishing.”

Thinking Past Wish Sides Longing Anticipation Recollection Live In The Present Wavering

Book:Losing Julia

Source: Losing Julia

“That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, To have no home in the present. And these are wishes: gentle dialogues Of the poor hours with eternity.”

Home Wish Hours Poor Eternity Longing Dialogue Gentle Flux

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Prayer simply means a longing of the heart, it is the wish felt, - it may be expressed, or not expressed. It may take the form of human language or it may never be uttered at all; still it is a prayer, if God only hears it in the secret recess of the heart.”

Ifs Humans Heart May Mean Stills Form Language Wish Felt Prayer Secret Longing Recess Human Language

Author:Keshub Chandra Sen

“But what are wishes, compared with longings?”

Desire Wish Longing

Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

“All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.”

Wells May Desire Wish Expression Longing

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?”

Men Wish Opinion Longing Wander Venture Loathing Morrow Hankering

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.”

Able Wish Capable Understood Performances Longing Flight Aviation

Book:Leonardo da Vinci

Source: Leonardo da Vinci

“One of the interesting things about "outsidership" is that underneath it there's a longing to belong. I just wish the thing I refused to belong to - the species, Western capital culture - was a little more respectable. My one true relaxation is my flotation tank, in which I can either meditate or just drift off.”

Littles I Can Culture Wish Interesting Longing Species Western Relaxation Tanks Respectable Interesting Things

Author:George Carlin

“People associate long hair with drug use. I wish people associated long hair with something other than drug use, like an extreme longing for cake. And then strangers would see a long haired guy and say, "That guy eats cake!" "He is on bundt cake!" Mothers saying to their daughters, "Don't bring the cake eater over here anymore. He smells like flour. Did you see how excited he got when he found out your birthday was fast approaching?"”

People Long Use Humor Funny Mother Guy Found Wish Hair Drug Daughter Longing Excited Extremes Stranger Smell Cake Associates That Guy Long Hair Flour Drug Use

Author:Mitch Hedberg