Longing Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Longing

Longing Quotes & Sayings

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The things that I've been longing for were nothing but dreams. — Mika Yamamori

We are all the same ... all the same ...
longing to find our way back ...
back to the One ... back to the Only One! — Rumi

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

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone. — C.S. Lewis

155. The secret waits for eyes unclouded by longing. — Lao-Tzu

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure. — Kate Baldwin

Love isn't something that fades with time. It just grows sharper with longing. — Amber Argyle

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

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

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 heart
deprives 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 spiral
Of longings within.
Our very own cathedral
That points persistently to heaven. — Scott Hastie

We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing of the human soul. — Dave Earley

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

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

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. — Oscar Wilde

In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated. — Marty Rubin

And it seemed to me that longing was everything, longing is all we are. — Valerie Martin

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

My heart is sair-I dare na tell,
My heart is sair for Somebody. — Robert Burns

You are ice and fire
The touch of you burns my hands like snow — Amy Lowell

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

you came in slowly like the fog
and consumed me. — AVA.

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

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

We can never give up longing and wishing while we are throughly alive — George Eliot

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

Deep within each of us is a longing for home. We yearn for a place of comfort where we can be ourselves, where we can realize our dreams. — Denise Linn

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach? — Greta Garbo

A particularly Jersey malaise
the inextinguishable longing for elsewheres. — Junot Diaz

Those who seek eternity find a mind of infinity — Ana Claudia Antunes

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach. — Ayn Rand

Clairey knew well that it was one thing to occupy his bed, quite another to occupy his heart. — Tracy Winegar

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. — Judi Dench

All those years when I was a child, longing for it to be 'my turn,' it hadn't ever occurred to me that my turn would be over, by and by. — Anne Tyler

And scared through my system - adrenaline mixed with lust and longing. It's a heady, potent cocktail. Christian's stance has changed completely, — E.L. James

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

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

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

Only love could create such conflict, such longing, such fear. — Anne Rice

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

Bear the pain of longing silently, my heart
for this is the cure.
The ultimate sacrifice is to curb your desires
and surrender the ego. — Rumi

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 Remote
I 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

Now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me. — Sarah Waters

I have been longing for inner consistency. — Virginia Woolf

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

Ideas and creeds are represented as unheeding stones as the ends of human longing. — Justin Cartwright

And in the background of Early's story was her voice. Her soul. Her sadness and longing. Because when it's raining, it's always Billie Holiday. p. 81 — Clare Vanderpool