Quotes of: Longs Keyword

As long as you are waiting for something to make you happy — happiness will never come.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.

Some Mistakes of Moses

Satan's warming me a throne, that's how long [I've been watching you]. Not a chair, not a seat at the bar. The big guy's got a throne with my name on it.

Snowbound

I can't imagine what my life was before. I can't imagine ever being without you for very long again.

Splendor

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book." ( , 3 October 1892)

Selected Prose

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.

Selected Poems

Somehow, we both got carried away. I don’t know exactly how it happened, but before long, I knew nothing was ever going to be the same.

Shattered Reality

I was always on guard and I was always prepared for him to be upset with me. I had lived feeling uneasy and tense for so long.

Shattered Reality

I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.

Spiral Road

I don’t care who you hang out with, so long as it’s either me or my clones. See, I’m not a jealous type. 

Sleepwalking is restercise

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.

Summer Rain

I have long since chosen him for my only good, my all; my pleasure, my happiness in this world as in the world to come... -Susanna Wesley

Susanna

…the known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow.

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

There’s always going to be a criminal element in the population. At least as long as people believe they need politicians.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...

Sister

...do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone?

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

Smilla's Sense of Snow

No one except Sherlock Holmes thought he should be going anywhere, least of all his long-suffering doctor, but the game was afoot.

A Study in Silks

As long as I live, I will always remember those wee children standing at the railing on that ship." - John Hanlon, the sailor

The Sailor and the Christmas Trees

With the young writers now it’s F and C all day long, which he, personally, finds boring.

Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

She saw the shallow lines beaded with blood in her long mirror, and when he told her that she was beautiful, she believed him.

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