Longing Quotes · Page 26

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

— Robert Bly

I still remember the days when you here with me. But I miss you even more.

— Anonymous

We all have that incomplete love story hidden inside our hearts. Which still sometimes makes a reason for our sleepless nights!

— Anonymous

That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.

— Paulo Coelho

“And it seemed to me that longing was everything, longing is all we are.”

— Valerie Martin

“Like any / unloved thing, I don’t know if I’m real / when I’m not being touched.”

— Natalie Wee

“A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.”

— Pawan Mishra

“You think embracing the longing while waiting for the right man is impossible? Well obviously you didn't get the memo.”

— Osayi Osar-Emokpae

Some people say the worst way to miss someone is when they are right next to you and you know you can't…

— Mayurkumar Solanki

“..and when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away…

— Laini Taylor

It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended…

— John Steinbeck

I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what…

— Alice Steinbach

“To quench my longing I bent me low By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow In that magical wood…

— Sarojini Naidu

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

— Anonymous

“If I wanted to be free of this unrequited longing, I would have to make peace with the past and finally let…

— Kat Von D

We knew our Father. There was no need for persuasion. Would not His Fatherliness be longing to give us our hearts' desire…

— Amy Carmichael

Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It…

— Libba Bray

“Shrinking in a corner, pressed into the wall; do they know I'm present, am I here at all? Is there a written…

— Lang Leav

We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“…The truth: dreaming is lonely the further away the closer to this one time No one has held me for so long…

— Angkarn Chanthathip

“I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater. Lying awake, I…

— Donna Tartt

“I am torn in two’ […] ‘Poor Sam! It might feel like that, I’m afraid,’ said Frodo. ‘But you will be healed.…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I…

— Alfred Stieglitz

“These transient “tastes of the wild” come during the mystique of inspiration—ah, there it is; oh, now it has gone. The longing…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.

— Juliana Hatfield

I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.

— Salvador Plascencia

Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.

— Anonymous

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

— William Shakespeare

“it requires great courage to hold the wounded parts of yourself that are longing for your loving attention”

— Melinda Quesenberry

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual…

— Sigmund Freud

“I have late night conversations with the moon; he tells me about the sun, and I tell him about you.”

— S.L. Gray

It's not that I want you with me everytime, but It's just I want anyone else to have you for a second

— Usman Ismaheel

I--love's skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb-- Shall leap into the light lost In my mother's womb.

— William Butler Yeats

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

— Ismail Merchant

“We are in the world where the longing mountains are the most grounded.”

— Sorin Cerin

We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.

— Honore de Balzac

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

— Jack Kerouac

“Love is your addiction to an eternal longing for someone...A thirst which one cannot relinquish”

— Seema Gupta

I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest…

— Katy Lederer