Longing Quotes
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Longing Quotes & Sayings
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The things that I've been longing for were nothing but dreams.
— Mika Yamamori
I wanted desperately to be part of our pack; I felt a hole inside myself where my pack should have been.
— Aurora Whittet
quick-witted, an open book in her lap; inside her chest pulses something huge, something full of longing, something unafraid. — Anthony Doerr
Love is a longing for giving and receiving.
— Debasish Mridha
We love certain things because they are longing for us.
— Debasish Mridha
All lovers live by longing, and endure:Summon a vision and declare it pure. — Theodore Roethke
But what are wishes, compared with longings?
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Love is life.The soul is ever longing for love. — Lailah Gifty Akita
My head didn't ache, but my heart did. The longing for Aspen's arms was so familiar, it was like it never left.
— Kiera Cass
All that produces longing in the heartdeprives the heart of freedom. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.
— Milan Kundera
Feeling secure regarding their happiness and welfare, she did not miss them except with an occasional, intense longing.
— Kate Chopin
What is vanity but the longing to survive?
— Miguel De Unamuno
A wave of sadness washed over Sam. It was that feeling again, that sense of longing for something she couldn't remember ever having.
— Jennifer Hillier
Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly
— Elmer Diktonius
I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.
— Katy Lederer
Dora sat on a corner of the spread rug, longing to be assigned some task so she could resent it.
— Shirley Hazzard
Many are hurting for love, while many are suffering from a love that hurts.
— Anthony Liccione
My library is an archive of longings.
— Susan Sontag
What you are longing for is longing for you.
— Ralph Marston
The gilded spiralOf longings within.
Our very own cathedral
That points persistently to heaven. — Scott Hastie
Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.
— Alexander MacLaren
What is the gospel according to Jesus? Simply this: that the love we all long for in our innermost heart is already present, beyond longing.
— Stephen Mitchell
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
— Oscar Wilde
It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
— Albert Einstein
And how do you really feel?Like I'll never recover. Like I'll never draw another breath without half of it being a wish for him. — Jane Seville
There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.
— Deborah L. Norris
What, and end up like you? Wistfully recalling a lover from long ago? Please.
— Elizabeth Carlton
That deep longing that you keep dismissing as impractical, may be the very thing your soul is calling you to do.
— Renae A. Sauter
The infinity of this vacancy, the pervasive pain, the longing for some spirit, some lightness, some joy - that's all that is left.
— Martha Manning
Shatter your pride in dust to vanish into the joy of longing and love.
— Debasish Mridha
All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful.
— Maggie Osborne
I don't have a vast longing for the stage.
— Anthony Hopkins
Loneliness is a twilight moment by feelings, longing after something or someone you can not reach
— Istvan Molnar
How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters.
— Iris Murdoch
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
— Ramakrishna
The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
— Alain De Botton
Mika: Were you happy?Hiro: I was so happy. — Ibuki Haneda
Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?
— Greta Garbo
Those who seek eternity find a mind of infinity
— Ana Claudia Antunes
Clairey knew well that it was one thing to occupy his bed, quite another to occupy his heart.
— Tracy Winegar
The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.
— Margaret Mitchell
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
— Orison Swett Marden
My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I missed Ash, and the longing was ripping my stomach to pieces, but I also wanted Puck to come back and kiss me some more Meghan Chase
— Julie Kagawa
I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
— Carson McCullers
Happiness is the gap between loving and longing.
— Debasish Mridha
I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. — Sylvia Plath
And what if Miriam and I were never to be reconciled?
— Mordecai Richler
We're living for Likes, but we're longing for love.
— Craig Groeschel
For a while she had a vague longing to be a psychologist. "Talking therapy is dead," Gary said when she raised the idea. "It's all pills now.
— Rafael Yglesias
You are not a human being living your life, but you are a spiritual being longing for life.
— Debasish Mridha
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
We clean our plates, yet we're still famished - starving for something other than food.
— Kate Wicker
To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Nothing was eaten in the house that was not seasoned in the broth of longing.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The song of your soul is longing to be sung. Let your own essence express itself freely.
— Brandon Bays
And you'll miss me more as the narrowing weeks wing by. Someday duly, oneday truly, twosday newly, till whensday.
— James Joyce
Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her.
— Jenim Dibie
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.
— Julia Margaret Cameron
If i think about us logically, there is no chance for us. But logic doesn't produce magic.
— Cristian Peter Marinescu-Ivan
Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
So I perversely circle the late stars, drowsier and drowsier, sleepily longing for something.
— Sylvia Plath
Perfect joy could not be joy alone but must be a joy that somehow contains our past grief and sadness and longing.
— Amy Alznauer
I have a longing for fiction, to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
— Karl Ove Knausgaard
Have gentle utterances that will inspire a superior longing for all time ...
— Philip The Apostle
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
— Richard Wagner
The RemoteI often think about you
when I'm lying alone in
my room with my mouth
open and the remote
lost somewhere in the bed. — Leonard Cohen
I miss you.I miss you. I miss you, I miss you.
Be ready, because when I see you, I'll never let you go again. — Veronica Rossi
Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are.
— Shauna Niequist
I have been longing for inner consistency.
— Virginia Woolf
