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I wasn't a person who was longing forever to have a baby; the desire came up suddenly.
— Rachel Weisz
She'd been in love with the man, and love is a scary thing. If not reciprocated, it can turn a person into a monster.
— Michele Young-Stone
Longing that is deeper than want. It's not as simple as desire. It's more like missing something you've never had.
— T. Greenwood
The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.
— Nicholas Of Cusa
Because one look into his eyes, and she was drowning in what existed there and didn't want to surface.
— Katherine McIntyre
But what are wishes, compared with longings?
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Entirety exists within me as exuberance ... in empty longing ... in ... the desire to burn with desire.
— Georges Bataille
Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
— Saint Augustine
Desire wills its perpetuation ad infinitum.
— Susan Sontag
All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.
— Chenjerai Hove
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
— Bryant H. McGill
I incessantly look for water in wells dug by men, and I have drunk enough sand to prove it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Follow your heart. Then root its longing with the facts.
— Gina Greenlee
Desire and longing are the whips of God.
— Anna Wickham
He gazed into eyes the color of a summer morning sky and sighed. It felt as if his soul had just come home.
— Grace Willows
Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.
— Emily Dickinson
We come to this world with an abundance of hope, a deep desire to love, and a longing to belong.
— Debasish Mridha
The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing ...
— Lynne Reid Banks
How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.
— Allegra Goodman
Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious!
— Heloise D'Argenteuil
There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.
— George MacDonald
Nd when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away and the absence rushed back in.
— Laini Taylor
And the river's voice was full of longing, full of smarting woe, full of insatiable desire.
— Hermann Hesse
I lose hope when the desire for life awakens within me; but I regain it whenever the longing for death comes upon me.
— Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski
All that pent up longing," he says, "all that desire to flail and flap around. Them wings have needs.
— Justin Torres
Your mind is the voice for your heart.
— Shannon L. Alder
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire for a life with less pressure.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand
That I might touch that cheek! — William Shakespeare
America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.
— Maurice Saatchi
