I tire of this constant longing that follows me as night…

“Even in the darkest clouds There are specks of joy Out of the darkness Comes light Just as day Always follows night”

— Karen Hackel

It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.

— Henri Nouwen

There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only…

— Franz Kafka

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

— Sonia Sanchez

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.”

— Allegra Goodman

If we really face our sadness, we find it speaks with the voice of our deepest longing. And if we face it a little…

— Peter Kingsley

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this…

— Albert Camus

Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground

— Emily Dickinson

It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all.

— Anders Petersen

Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?

— Li-Young Lee

Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the…

— Esther Perel

“Haunted by the longing to feel something real, deep and magical; I searched for a shared ecstasy... that's when you came along.”

— Lebo Grand