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Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.
— Billy Graham
Cultivate night-blooming jasmine near your bedroom window, and dream of men you've always longed for.
— Gwen Davis
I longed for it in that excruciating way one has of romanticizing the life she didn't choose.
— Sue Monk Kidd
which he longed to fall. "'Well! It is not well.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
How she longed for the uninhibitedness of kids her age, their vacuous sense of immortality.
— Paolo Giordano
Was Levi Myers real? Did he really exist? Or did my sad, black heart create him because it longed for a little bit of color?
— Brittainy C. Cherry
For a moment my hands stopped aching from the cold, and instead longed for the familiar feel of music running through them.
— Patrick Rothfuss
He longed for smut, but heard little and contributed less, and his chief indecencies were solitary.
— E.M.Foster
In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear.
— Jeaniene Frost
I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.
— Rachel Zucker
Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
— Margaret Atwood
I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
— Maggie Smith
Funny, isn't it? I've known every love possible, but as the years stretched out, the love I longed for the most is the one I shared with my sister.
— Josephine Angelini
Oh, how I longed to burst through the doors and go walking through the streets, with my hands open, like weapons!
— Marcel Bealu
I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood.
— Jane Goodall
I longed for release from whatever it was I was. But whatever I was lay hard and immovable in me, like bone; I would never be free of my own weight.
— Steven Millhauser
Her heart longed for some ark into which it could fly and be at rest. Rough or smooth she did not care, so long as it was warm.
— Thomas Hardy
You were the goddess I longed to worship. My unobtainable dream. The relationship I could never hope to have.
— Tara Sue Me
It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive.
— Lisa Kleypas
Time for us began to be measured by moments when we spoke, and moments when we longed to speak again.
— Richie Singh
But sometimes I longed for that sense of someone pulling me close, feeling another heartbeat against mine.
— Sarah Dessen
I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
— Edmund White
He did not confuse what he longed for with his gratitude for what he had. Extreme desires have their own sanctuary.
— Tove Jansson
He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder.
— Robin Hobb
Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.
— Myrtle Reed
When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children
— L. Frank Baum
The times when she was away were hard for Jimmy. He worried about her, he longed for her, he resented her for not being there.
— Margaret Atwood
I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.
— John Cheever
Like anyone else who harbors precious secrets wrought from years of searching, I have longed for someone to tell.
— Hope Jahren
We longed for healing and happiness - as if happiness is a state of being. But it's not. Happiness is a vector. It's movement.
— Neal Shusterman
I have longed for a friend; I have sought one who would sympathize with and love me.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Till then I wasn't alive, I longed for you like the love sick moon pulls the tide
— Corinne Bailey Rae
One thing I longed to do was to design a complete look, from head to toe, so I started a make-up line in 1966.
— Mary Quant
She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.
— Philip Pullman
I longed for my bed. I longed for sleep.
— Jim Butcher
I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.
— Kent McCord
the particular plant longed for by the wife, which was originally parsley, was a well-known abortifacient.
— Philip Pullman
I have longed to move away but am afraid; Some life, yet unspent, might explode.' Wow.
— Colleen Hoover
Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.
— Abba Eban
Suddenly she longed for the comfort of books around her. No matter how bad she felt, a library could always make her feel better.
— Alexandra Sokoloff
So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil.
— Walter Salles
All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.
— Sigrid Undset
The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die.
— Shirley Hazzard
So Ame stayed home like a good girl, and I snuck out like a bad one. I already longed for a good book and my quilt.
— Gwen Hayes
True happiness is impossible without solitude. The fallen angel probably betrayed God because he longed for solitude, which angels do not know.
— Anton Chekhov
Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.
— Ivan Goncharov
Ah, Hannah, you have never longed to live as I long to live if you do not know that another day is the most precious thing.
— Philippa Gregory
It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she'd done this before and already she longed to do it again.
— Maggie Stiefvater
I wanted to be respected and to be loved. I longed for a man, like my father, to come and take me away from it all.
— Nicci Greene
Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.
— James Howell
The longed-for ships come empty home, founder on the deepAnd eyes first lose their tears and then their sleep. — Edith Wharton
Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.
— James Russell Lowell
I longed to be loved that way. You are, sweetheart. You are loved. Stop trying to be a savior, and let me carry you. — Sharon Hinck
Jubal longed for the days when a lawyer could cite the Bill of Rights and not have some over-riding Federation trickery defeat him.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.
— Rick Derringer
Geoff's arm emanated with a solid warmth I longed for after our days aboard S.S. British-Craphole. — Katherine McIntyre
August briefly tried that on for size. Wondered if he longed for summer because summer made it so much easier to breathe.
— Catherine Ryan Hyde
Um ... Mercer? Haven't seen you in nearly a month. I was expecting something like, 'Oh Cross, love of my heart, fire of my loins, how I've longed— Rachel Hawkins
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.
— Julia Margaret Cameron
Quite frantically, he longed not to be.
— D.H. Lawrence
Christ is never loved - until sin is loathed. Heaven is never longed for - until sin is loathed.
— Anonymous
The rope longed-for her beloved, the ceiling hook. The suspended body; a harbinger of good news.
Love was lost.
Love was found. — Chirag Tulsiani
I longed for nothing more than to behold a stormy sea, less as a mighty spectacle than as a momentary revelation of the true life of nature;
— Marcel Proust
Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated.
— Jonathan Carroll
I longed to know what it felt like to have one person eclipse everything bad in your life - be a place of pure joy.
— Cara Lynn Shultz
Because as a youngster I longed to see the Black man free and I longed to see anyone stand up for us.
— Louis Farrakhan
Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
She longed for a letter that was for her and her alone, a letter which would give her some glimpse into his heart.
— Daisy Goodwin
I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.
— Patti Smith
We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.
— Guy Finley
Her soul was a country he longed to explore and know as well as he did every stone that pocked that creek path.
— Lori Benton
I longed for Mum in the most primitive way
— Gabrielle Zevin
He longed for sleep, but it would not immerse him; that night the waters he sought for his repose were deep enough to wade in, but not to swim.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
Oh, my dear, how too marvelous! I've longed all my life to eat a flamingo.
— Compton Mackenzie
I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood.
— Beverly Cleary
This year will take from methe hardened person
who I longed to be.
I am healing by mistake.
Rome is also built on ruins. — Eliza Griswold
Come lie down with me, I've longed for nothing as much as your arms these past days.
— Jeaniene Frost
I longed to be wrapped in his arms again, pour my troubles, make everything feel okay, even if it wasn't
— Katie Alender
There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.
— Storm Constantine
All his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.
— Alan Hollinghurst
I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.
— Marsha Norman
