Life Longing Quotes: top 87 famous quotes about Life Longing

Life Longing Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Life Longing quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

jejune longing is the chewing gum of life. — Padgett Powell

Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends ... and a passion for extremism is a veiled longing for death. — Milan Kundera

To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep. — Sarojini Naidu

I've been longing for,
Daisies to push through the floor,
And I wish that plant life would grow all around me,
So I won't feel dead anymore. — Owl City

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. — Anna Brownell Jameson

Love is the longing for heart and soul. — Debasish Mridha

Oh my love! You are the light of love in the darkness. I am longing for you, you are my flower and freshness. — Debasish Mridha

Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing. — Alister E. McGrath

All my life the god of the Mountain has been wooing me. — C.S. Lewis

Love is a longing for giving and receiving. — Debasish Mridha

Best not to tiptoe around what you're yearning for, eyeing it, longing for it ... or you'll miss your life ahead, it read. — Beverly Lewis

We love certain things because they are longing for us. — Debasish Mridha

The longing of every heart is to be loved. — Lailah Gifty Akita

this heart yearns...
for the salt of unsmelt air
unswept thunderstorms...
unknown adventures. — Sanober Khan

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life. — Albert Einstein

I am longing for you in life and in death
As the moon is longing for night
and life is longing for breath — Debasish Mridha

Is that man's fate: to spend his closest hours to truth longing for a lie? — Tom Robbins

Sometimes a storm in your life is what will
blow you to the place you are longing to be. — Beth Moore

The more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe — Jess Walter

I was so incredibly nostalgic for a life I knew I'd never, ever have again. — Paige Harbison

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring. — Vladimir Nabokov

Love is life.
The soul is ever longing for love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man. — Milan Kundera

Even victims of atrocious brutality and intractable pain may retain a longing, sometimes even a zest, for life. — Carl Sagan

What's left to lean together with, longing against, when life's outlines get swept away?
- Imru'l-Qays — Ann Chamberlin

If we don't cherish those who stay near, what do we have? Only longing. — Janice Clark

For the first time in my life, I felt the pain of missing people I had not yet left. — Justin Cronin

Dimitri always left my heart full of pain and longing, but I still wanted Adrian in my life. — Richelle Mead

Life is a tapestry of hours
Forever mellowing in tone,
Where all things blend, even the longing
For hours I have never known. — Hazel Hall

I dance - to ease the madness, to subdue the longing, to breathe life into my dreams. — Cheri Bauer

The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order. — Milan Kundera

The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life. — Pier Paolo Pasolini

I love you as a river loves the sea;
my every cell longing for you not me. — Debasish Mridha

Kiss me until I forget how terrified I am of everything wrong with my life. — Beau Taplin

To feel such a longing for his own life, even as he's living it - he wonders what that means. — David Levithan

Oh, my beauty!
Oh, my reflection of life!
Oh, my unmet desires!
I am longing for you
tor now and forever! — Debasish Mridha

Death is not our destiny. Longing for true love is our true destiny. That is where we will find the ultimate meaning of life. — Debasish Mridha

Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean from my senses, most I thirst for. — Erri De Luca

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for. — Laura Lippman

You are here to remind me of someone I long for, and what is it you long for yourself? We must have been together in an earlier life, you and I. — Murasaki Shikibu

How could I want one thing so much and its exact opposite at the same time? — Kate Mildenhall

Or were they breed who had died from their half-life, caught in the sun, perhaps, or withered by longing? — Clive Barker

Longing for our idealized images of life separates us from our true selves and from our true callings. — Stephen Cope

There is no perfect lover or perfect love, only longing for love and be beloved. — Debasish Mridha

Caleb was like a hurricane that swept through my life, stirring up things inside of me that I never knew existed. He is a longing I will never cure. — Tarryn Fisher

When I am looking for you, then in silence, your every atom is longing for me. — Debasish Mridha

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself — Kahlil Gibran

Everyone is longing for love, everyone is suffering from the needs and wants, so be loving, kind, and compassionate to everyone. — Debasish Mridha

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

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

What you love is longing for you. — Debasish Mridha

Love is your addiction to an eternal longing for someone ... A thirst which one cannot relinquish — Seema Gupta

Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are. — Shannon L. Alder

Love is a longing to belong, to be beloved. — Debasish Mridha

We are in the world where the longing mountains are the most grounded. — Sorin Cerin

Everyone hustles his life along, and is troubled by a longing for the future and weariness of the present. — Seneca.

If I could, I would work my way backward, paring away the years. I would reel my life arouond the wheel of this longing like so much loose wire. — Kevin Brockmeier

I miss you like the mismatching sock I can't find. You're out there somewhere. — Karen Quan

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

What you are longing for is longing for you. — Ralph Marston

The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. — Alain De Botton

All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful. — Maggie Osborne

Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life. — Alexander MacLaren

A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life. — Stanley Kunitz

How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters. — Iris Murdoch

Never let the meaning of your love light escape to the dark nothingness of oblivion. — Sorin Cerin

I didn't have that kind of friendship, the forever kind of friendship that will last your whole life through, no matter what. — Jenny Han

Happiness is the gap between loving and longing. — Debasish Mridha

You are not a human being living your life, but you are a spiritual being longing for life. — Debasish Mridha

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life. — Anna Freud

I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man's chest. — Kristen Hope Mazzola

The very life within you is longing to be joyful because joyfulness is the nature of the source of creation. — Jaggi Vasudev

Don't fasten on Dorothy. Only unanswerable longing lies down that road. Gone is gone. — Gregory Maguire

Just love, just feel the love, longing for love, nothing else matters. — Debasish Mridha

Even in this world where you're getting everything you need and having this nice life, there's still loneliness and longing and disconnection. — Spike Jonze

You are the light of love in darkness. I am longing for you, oh my love! — Debasish Mridha

Music expresses those thoughts and words, which have no form but have longing for love. — Debasish Mridha

Longing for God's love help us to earn peace, joy and strength that educates us how to pull through vicious storms of life. — Euginia Herlihy

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

The trouble with life is, we never know when we are in the zone, until we think back, with jealous longing, years later. — Robert Black

Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her. — Jenim Dibie

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left. — Brian Andreas

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

The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind. — William S. Burroughs

I walk with a dual longing
for life and for death. — Melissa Lee-Houghton

I feel your body against mine, while our lips are intertwined. — Avijeet Das

I miss my old life — Richard C. Morais