Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.

“Let’s call my mood melancholy; let’s call it remembrance. Or maybe let’s call it longing. Yes, let’s call it longing instead.”

— Shannon Celebi

Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration,…

— Philip Sington

Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape,…

— Aldous Huxley

“The fatal combination of indulgence without feeling disgusts me. Strange to be both greedy and dead. For myself, I prefer to hold my desires…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Angkarn Chanthathip

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