Longing Quotes

Longing performs all things

— Mary Renault

Longing is all that lasts.

— Jennifer Stone

Poetry keeps longing alive.

— Robert Bly

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— Anonymous

“Desiderium sinus cordis”

— St. Augustine of Hippo

L onging O ver V arious E motions

— Raghib Clitso

“He is a longing I will never cure.”

— Tarryn Fisher

“Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.”

— Ranata Suzuki

“I was longing for the moment I was in, even as I was in it.”

— Dani Shapiro

“jejune longing is the chewing gum of life.”

— Padgett Powell

Desire and longing are the whips of God.

— Anna Wickham

“The Memory Of You Is Like A Drug To Me”

— Jeremy Aldana

I do believe that everybody needs somebody to lean on!!!

— Fairy_thale

All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.

— Richard Chenevix Trench

Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.

— Nathanael Emmons

I could do it, you know... But why deny the Dementors? They're so longing to see you.

— Remus Lupin

“I really should be studying now, but you're much more important to me than a .50 calibre machine gun.”

— Kara Martinelli

A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals.

— Ralph Peters

The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering expresses the great natural potential of mind.

— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

Believe me, I'm not longing for the days when I was going to become a lawyer. Especially come tax time.

— Cris Collinsworth

Goodbyes are hard. It may be hard for the person leaving, but it's always harder for the one left behind.

— Anonymous

This is destiny so why pretend close your eye's and kiss me once again.I'll always be the only one you'll need. So…

— Anonymous

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent,…

— Alva Myrdal

“A pang of deep longing ripples through me. I’m torn between my promise to send Aydan to the Abyss and my need…

— Christine Fonseca

As I have got older, I have found myself making friends with the ease and swiftness that other people pick up fuzzballs…

— Julie Burchill

Broken, shattered, life filled with pain. Lonely, forgotten, eyes filled with shame. Lost, confused, heart filled with hurt. Praying, longing for life…

— Anonymous

... our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never…

— Julian of Norwich

“When we get older we buy the things we really wanted as a kid and can finally afford and appreciate. But it…

— Patrick W. Galbraith

Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight,…

— Anonymous

Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring,…

— Jackson Browne

“... deep inside you was a frantic longing to be something or someone other than you are. It is the greatest scourge…

— Sándor Márai

“The lamplight was warm and the apartment still and snug. At home in bed, in my private abyss of longing, the scenes…

— Donna Tartt

“But the longing within him had grown even greater, the overpowering need to be alone. Locked in an empty room, entirely unwitnessed,…

— Philip K. Dick

“The last clear thought I have is of my grandmother’s rust-colored wall clock ticking away in the darkness of my apartment—my sanctuary…

— J. Tonzelli

“As we lifted off, China growing ever more distant from the window-seat, the endless ocean opening up before us, I was torn…

— Megan Rich

“One evening he was in his room, his brow pressing hard against the pane, looking, without seeing them, at the chestnut trees…

— Théophile Gautier

“The reins of our life are in the hands of the future. Man always lives today in the hope of tomorrow. And…

— Osho

“You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind.”

— Simona Panova

Nothing hurts as much as missing someone that doesn't miss you.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

— Henry Ward Beecher