Longings. What is there to say about longings that hasn't…

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

“Out of infinite longings rise finite deeds like weak fountains, falling back just in time and trembling. And yet, what otherwise remains silent, our…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining…

— George Eliot

“This is what we do with books: we put our longings and our questions and our angst onto trading ships and send them out…

— Julian Darius

“Trifles cannot satisfy our longings. Sensual pleasures, power over our fellow man, the acquisition of things, these are babbles, toys, trifles. Our spirits yearn…

— Vaughn Heppner

“Lonely Balcony The deterioration brought by weariness was visible. Its burden of abandonment can be perceived at a glance. The balcony ache with longings.…

— iqra iqbal

The life of woman is full of woe, Toiling on and on and on, With breaking heart, and tearful eyes, The secret longings that…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“You can learn a lot about the longings and generalized gender anxieties of an era by the kinds of fake women it dreams up.”

— Carina Chocano

It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a…

— Mark Twain

...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

— Alan Hollinghurst

Never cut loose from your longings.

— Amos Oz

One of the greatest human longings is to be close to someone.

— Kathleen R Fischer

How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages…

— Libba Bray

“Some of the streets are, however, genuinely narrow. These same streets may not be filled with machine-gun fire and the dramatic screech of violins,…

— John Dolan

“When I was in my early twenties I didn't have a need to rub together, back when my life was a series of wants…

— Tyne O'Connell