Longing Quotes · Page 30

I sit all alone smiling, I want going mad but I'm reminiscing into the wonderful times we spent smiling together.

— Usman Ismaheel

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

— Carson McCullers

“I didn't feel lonely until there was something to yearn for. Loneliness and longing are two sides of the same coin.”

— Jostein Gaarder

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

— Vladimir Nabokov

All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.

— Robert Olen Butler

Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.

— Anonymous

The Lady has always moved to the next town and you stumble on after Her.

— Robert Creeley

“Bring me somewhere new Away from this place; Its memories haunt me And I wish, longing to forget”

— Jenn Waterman

“...that somewhere from amidst the welter of sound there will dart up, like a bird, a single authentic note of immortal longing.”

— J.M. Coetzee

Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step…

— Joan D. Chittister

The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and…

— Mark Twain

I see you in my dreams and know you are there, but I still feel like I have lived my whole lifetime…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Birthright citizenship in America is part of something larger: The American longing to sever from history, to be a place of new…

— Anand Giridharadas

All our longings for what is loving and true reach out into heaven. They put us in touch with angels who are…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

“Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that…

— Khalil Gibran

“There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make us…

— Oscar Wilde

The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle…

— Enid Blyton

Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this…

— Steven Saylor

Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs…

— Joseph Conrad

Frank Berliners spiritual memoir is beautifully crafted and written. It is a tale about love, and the great longing that springs from…

— John Welwood

But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever…

— Ayn Rand

“If I have fully diagnosed the cause and nature of your condition, you are wasting away in pining and longing for your…

— Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

I know you think that I might be happy without you, but the truth is I am broken into pieces which will…

— Anonymous

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

— Oscar Wilde

“May the loneliness of Christmas place in all hearts the longing for His presence.”

— Allene vanOirschot

Chances thrown, nothing's free, longing for what used to be. Still it's hard, hard to see, fragile lives, shattered dreams.

— Offspring

The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.

— Milan Kundera

Sometimes my eyes get jealous of my heart. Because you always remain close to my heart and far from my eyes.

— Anonymous

Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing.

— John O'Donohue

Longing, craving the love is incomplete. Isiliaanant too, because infinity is not always possible to perfection

— Mak_786

I write to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance

— Anonymous

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.

— Alexander MacLaren

So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.

— Sonia Sanchez

The longing for Europe has been all but extinguished in the young.

— Allan Bloom

Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.

— Meghan O'Rourke

You aren't the one that got away, you're the one that left before I could hold on.

— Anonymous

“If you are not grateful for what you have, how do you know that you will be grateful for the thing that…

— Jeremiah Browne