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quick-witted, an open book in her lap; inside her chest pulses something huge, something full of longing, something unafraid. — Anthony Doerr
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 waltz held the feeling you get when you finish a well-loved book. It left me longing for something I couldn't name.
— Louise Miller
The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light.
— Frederick Lenz
In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.
— Leigh Bardugo
My parents and their world represented a return to sanity and predictability, something I was longing for after all this madness.
— Ransom Riggs
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
We'd had small lives, populated by a longing for something more substantial than dirt roads and small dreams.
— Kevin Powers
Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for.
— Jane Urquhart
The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
— Gail Godwin
Loneliness does not arise so much from something lost as from a longing for something well remembered. Isolation cares nothing for memory.
— Marguerite Poland
I didn't feel lonely until there was something to yearn for. Loneliness and longing are two sides of the same coin.
— Jostein Gaarder
And that was what destroyed you in the end: the longing for something you could never have.
— Leigh Bardugo
Every person has a longing to be significant, to make a contribution, to be a part of something noble and purposeful.
— John C. Maxwell
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
For Tolkien, a myth awakens in its readers a longing for something that lies beyond their grasp. Myths
— Alister E. McGrath
There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.
— Henry Ward Beecher
That distant longing and determination, that knowledge that he was born for something greater than his small past or his sleepy present.
— Leon Logothetis
Got something to do with guilt,' Toro said. 'Her mother,neh?''Guilt. Longing. Got something to do with all of us. — Kiana Davenport
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.
— Helen Dunmore
We clean our plates, yet we're still famished - starving for something other than food.
— Kate Wicker
Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis.
— Matt Chandler
All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.
— Robert Olen Butler
The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?
— Mary Balogh
I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.
— Juliana Hatfield
Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?
— Greta Garbo
Loneliness is a twilight moment by feelings, longing after something or someone you can not reach
— Istvan Molnar
So I perversely circle the late stars, drowsier and drowsier, sleepily longing for something.
— Sylvia Plath
