To quench my longing I bent me low By the streams of the…

Once in the dream of a night I stood Lone in the light of a magical wood, Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang; And…

— Sarojini Naidu

“I envy no man, my wants and desires consumed by my search to quench their longing and my ability to accomplish every quest.”

— Dick Mawson

You don't know why, but you know you have to go home. It's an eternal longing. It's Marvell's drop of dew wanting to go…

— Frederick Lenz

“I walk with a dual longing for life and for death.”

— Melissa Lee-Houghton

“…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