buffeted by the passions and longings of youth.

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

Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still…

— George Eliot

“The longings of the human heart are changeable and elusive. The good fortune we enjoy today may not be appreciated until it has been…

— Mimi Baird

“Increasingly, during those classes, longings had seized me, foreign, torrential aches that overran my heart. I wanted to know things, to become someone.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“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

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

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

— Kathleen R Fischer

Never cut loose from your longings.

— Amos Oz

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

— Alan Hollinghurst

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

“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

“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

“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

We are the total of our longings.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“[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