Longing Quotes · Page 24

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

— Ayn Rand

The very life within you is longing to be joyful because joyfulness is the nature of the source of creation.

— Jaggi Vasudev

The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing...

— Lynne Reid Banks

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

— Bodhidharma

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.

— Peter Shaffer

I hate having to say goodbye at the end of the day when all I want to do is be with you.

— Anonymous

“What am I guilty of, then? Of having loved and continuing to love- no, not of loving: of longing.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“Longing for women other than your wife is not the root cause of infidelity”

— Betsy Wise

It really feels so sad, when both partner cant stop loving eachother despite the fact that they realise they cant have each…

— Usman Ismaheel

The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the…

— Agatha Christie

That first replica of the Globe that I saw at the Chicago World's Fair was a suspect thing, made of plywood and…

— Sam Wanamaker

I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple - like, God, I would just kill to be…

— Chris O'Donnell

Sacrifice is a state of mind in which our thoughts turn with longing [toward Heaven, the Ancestors], It is the supreme expression…

— Xunzi

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to…

— Albert Einstein

Emotionally, grief is a mixture of raw feelings such as sorrow, anguish, anger, regret, longing, fear, and deprivation. Grief may be experienced…

— Judy Tatelbaum

“As much as I cared about him, I wasn’t a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, strong as…

— J.M. Richards

They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Patanjali says that we can meditate on anything that our heart desires. The important thing is not what we meditate on, but…

— Ravi Ravindra

“We love films because they makes us feel something. They speak to our desires, which are never small. They allow us to…

— Nina LaCour

I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Aron said slowly. “I wouldn’t want to know that. I’d like to know why you do it. You’re always at something. I…

— John Steinbeck

I always had this put-together family, and I always identified as the outsider. And that's a position where I feel most comfortable,…

— Lily King

How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Sometimes I wish I could describe how wonderful I feel in those few seconds from the time he spreads his arms above…

— Yōko Ogawa

“I am longing to show him my love, but not by doing what is wrong”

— Gillian Shields

“What did I know of loving anything, beyond a longing, beyond being biased in one woman's direction.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I wish that you were here or I were there or me and you we anywhere TOGETHER.

— Anonymous

“Once, long ago, I heard the mermaids singing, but I do not think they will sing to me now.”

— Toby R. Beeny

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

— Helen Keller

“Though it’s reasons to burn may vary... you are always the fuel of my fire.”

— Ranata Suzuki

No matter how many times I try and move on, my heart always takes me back here to you.

— Anonymous

“I miss you every second of every minute, every minute of every hour, every hour of everyday.”

— Shanece

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

— Albert Einstein

Tears don't come when you miss a person, but they come when you don't want to miss a person.

— Anonymous

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

— Maurice Saatchi

The danger of being alone is that you badly miss those people who had been the reason for your smiles.

— Anonymous

loneliness is a twilight moment by feelings, longing after something or someone you can not reach

— Istvan Molnar

All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

When will my longing for you end? When will the sun rise up again?

— Anonymous

Missing someone is part of loving them. Not until you are apart do you realize how much they mean to you.

— Nikhil Saluja