Winter Longing Quotes

#1. The only person worthy of your love is not one who overstayed in the relationship without a single change, but one, who appeared like an angel, and used a single day to make a million change.

Michael Bassey

#2. Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It's human nature.

Dan Pearce

#3. I'm intrigued. If not by beauty, how then does one spot the garden-variety nobleman?"
"Easily," she said. "One need only look for the promise of beauty not quite fulfilled, a nose too large, eyes a bit too closer together, or ears ready to set sail.

Kristen Callihan

#4. Although in my life the level of loss has never reached the extremes it does in 'The Winter People,' I certainly can identify with being both a daughter longing for her mother and being a mother who is almost scared by the intensity of her love for her daughter.

Jennifer McMahon

#5. Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#6. Some part of me remembers what snow is, but this is the first time my new mind has seen it. It softens the crumbled sidewalks and turns rusty rooftops white. It's beautiful. It crunches under my feet as I move toward the house, longing to understand.

Isaac Marion

#7. Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.

Orison Swett Marden

#8. My name does help me get in the door, but it doesn't do the work for me.

Gia Coppola

#9. Methinks I lied all winter, when I swore
My love was infinite, if spring makes it more.

John Donne

#10. Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#11. Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

C.S. Lewis

#12. She was strange now, erratic, sometimes needing my friendship, trusting me with her dangerous longings for freedom, her wild plans to run away again; and sometimes hating me, blaming me for her trouble. One

Octavia E. Butler

#13. Whatever love meant there was some version of it that I felt for Winter. And it didn't matter if he felt that for me or not or if it was real love or just my sadness about my dad that had turned into longing. Love, that elusive leading lady, plays too many parts to be typecast.

Francesca Lia Block

#14. For time is inches
And the heart's changes,
Where ghost has haunted
Lost and wanted.

W. H. Auden

#15. The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.

Adrienne Rich

#16. A closet full of wire hangers can be the most dangerous place in the world.

Paul Lynde

#17. Christ also takes from us all inclination or power to boast of our national prestige. To me, it is prestige enough to be a Christian
to bear the cross Christ gives me to carry and to follow in the footsteps of the great Crossbearer.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#18. That's war: very high in the morning and very low in the evening: from triumph to failure is only one step.

Andrew Roberts

#19. Our faith may be big enough to elicit a miracle, but our faith is seldom large enough to embrace it once it actually happens.

Craig D. Lounsbrough