“It was not so much that I longed for death as that I didn't long for life.” — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that I really lacked, I believe, growing up. — Nadya Suleman Copy Share Image
“She spent the first half of her life alone. For the second half, she longed for a man of dignity to rescue… — Terry a O'Neal Copy Share Image
“For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves” — Sandra Kring Copy Share Image
“Come lie down with me, I've longed for nothing as much as your arms these past days.” — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“She longed for him to take her, to use her. Anything she could do to bring him pleasure. Anything to bring him… — Skye Warren Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be respected and to be loved. I longed for a man, like my father, to come and take me… — Nicci Greene Copy Share Image
“She longed to know what at the moment was passing in his mind--in what manner he thought of her, and whether, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I've longed for kids since I was very, very young. And so I'm waiting to find the right person, someone who's willing… — Prince Harry Copy Share Image
I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
“I longed to be able to gather my whole life-force into a single impulse, and transmit it to her and blow into… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“I longed only to turn back and climb and begin life all over again in a place where I might find the… — Andrew Krivak Copy Share Image
“He is amazed that he longed so deeply for the young girl when she was not there, that he was really happier… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
“I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one and the same. For… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“Mustering this sad, mutinous little force, I drove them before me up the Linar gorge, cursing the lot of them. It was… — Eric Newby Copy Share Image
“Since our nights together on that trip, I had longed every night to feel her next to me, to curl up against… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
...by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
“In my experience, there never seems to be a man or woman who will walk in and literally sweep you off your… — Jennifer Salaiz Copy Share Image
When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“And there is enchantment in the very hour I am now spending with you. Who can tell what a dark, dreary, hopeless… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“We know what we are, that we walk like we are not long for this world, that this world has never longed… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“In all the cities of this year I have longed for the other city.” — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“I longed for it in that excruciating way one has of romanticizing the life she didn’t choose.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Death was a sweet relief for my present miseries, and I vehemently longed for its arrival.” — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
“Till then I wasn't alive, I longed for you like the love sick moon pulls the tide” — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
“She longed for a letter that was for her and her alone, a letter which would give her some glimpse into his… — Daisy Goodwin Copy Share Image
“As for me, I longed to love as some people long to cry. I felt that every hour I slept now would… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I longed for the day when her soul would be taken into the depths of hell.” — David Pelzer Copy Share Image
