Longing Quotes · Page 29

A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals.

— Ralph Peters

The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering expresses the great natural potential of mind.

— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

“I really should be studying now, but you're much more important to me than a .50 calibre machine gun.”

— Kara Martinelli

I could do it, you know... But why deny the Dementors? They're so longing to see you.

— Remus Lupin

“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

You have no idea how hard it is to force myself to stop thinking about you.

— Anonymous

“Maybe I'd ignored longing so many times through the years until eventually I'd just stopped feeling it.”

— Patti Callahan Henry

“The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?”

— Mary Balogh

“This is the first time that Andrea ever knows it, feels it, deep in her gut: the dull ache of longing. It’s…

— Miren B. Flores

Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing…

— Anatoli Boukreev

Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is…

— Albert Camus

Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with…

— Dinty W. Moore

That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what…

— Andrew Lam

The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs…

— Anonymous

Although we are miles apart, the thought and touch of you lives within my heart. It is for that reason my dear…

— Andrew Guzaldo

Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their…

— Cormac McCarthy

The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle…

— Enid Blyton

I suppose everyone is looking for love, and we live in a culture where we have opportunities to fall in love far…

— Leanne Shapton

I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why…

— Everett Ruess

For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps,…

— John Haines

“I didn’t say, “I’ll call you.” I didn’t hug her because of the wet clothes. Just a quick kiss. Then I turned…

— Barry Eisler

One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my head, I…

— Stephen King

“Laine slowly rolled out of bed. The queen size was one of the few new things in the house. But now, even…

— Stephen M. Irwin

“As much longing there is for the worldly pleasure of five senses, that much less is the spiritual development.”

— Dada Bhagwan

When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The first half of life is spent in longing for the second - the second half in regretting the first.

— French Proverb

“To know if I'm alone in my longing, a lighthouse signaling to an empty sea.”

— Colleen Oakley

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

— Laura Lippman

Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.

— Rumi

I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.

— Juliana Hatfield

“You think embracing the longing while waiting for the right man is impossible? Well obviously you didn't get the memo.”

— Osayi Osar-Emokpae

“A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.”

— Pawan Mishra

“Like any / unloved thing, I don’t know if I’m real / when I’m not being touched.”

— Natalie Wee

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“it requires great courage to hold the wounded parts of yourself that are longing for your loving attention”

— Melinda Quesenberry

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

— William Shakespeare

Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.

— Anonymous

I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.

— Salvador Plascencia

The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.

— Pankaj Mishra