Longing Quotes · Page 43

I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature…

— Anonymous

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to…

— Spike Jonze

If the entire divinity and domain of God sits in the heart of a person, and his longing becomes timeless, then man…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly…

— Derrick Bell

“We writers can use our own longing - and frequently do - without ever having to understand or analyze it. That is…

— Marion Dane Bauer

The Christian is not always praying; but within his bosom is a heaven-kindled love--fires of desire, fervent longings--which make him always ready…

— Thomas Guthrie

“I've longed for you so, while my connection to the rest of reality has torn. It is that you have lost me.…

— Brandi Gomez

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Nobody really knew anything. People lived; they went here and there about the earth and rode through forests; so much seemed to…

— Hermann Hesse

In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, then it could…

— Martin Luther

“It was, in part, a longing – common enough among the inventors of heroes – to be someone else; to be more…

— Michael Chabon

“Shaken to the depths of your soul, you know that day and night someone is waiting for you, thinking of you, longing…

— Stefan Zweig

Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is…

— Carolyn Hart

“That they were left with only this--this awkward, prearranged meet-up, this terrible silence--seemed almost more than she could bear, and the unfairness…

— Jennifer E. Smith

We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of…

— Ben Okri

and i don't just mean that they change you. a lot of people can change you - the first kid who called…

— Sara Zarr

It is a nice feeling when you know that some one loves you, misses you, needs you, but it is better when…

— Anonymous

Out of the rhythm and sound of the sea that beat through the orchestra, something moved--pressing toward death with quiet insistent joy--the…

— Jeanette Lee

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings…

— Saul Bellow

“I slept in the grip of that love, comforted, thinking I should forget my longing within it, knowing that all was somehow…

— Tosca Lee

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative…

— Polly Toynbee

I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their…

— Khaled Hosseini

So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to…

— Mary Oliver

At the core of my work there is this eternal back-and-forth between being confined to one's own individuality and that longing to…

— Beat Streuli

“We can only come to terms with our own place in the world by compassionately commiserating with the pang of longing that…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Today we're just growing and consuming, and I think maybe there's a sadness in that. People are longing for a time when…

— Gore Verbinski

Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because…

— Agnes Obel

“When you look at her what do you feel?... Joy, fear, frustration, longing, friendship, anger, need, despair, love, lust?" "Yes." "Yes, what?"…

— Katja Millay

.. now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it…

— Sarah Waters

Learn that there is no cure for desire, no cure for the love of reward, no cure for the misery of longing,…

— Mabel Collins

I craved your warmth. I hugged myself, rubbing my fingers up and down. I guess people are like insects sometimes, drawn to…

— Lucy Christopher

I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one…

— Storm Jameson

Lots of people want to ride with you Hoping and longing for you more and more Thinking you were way close but...…

— Sammy Bond

In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of…

— Dorothy Richardson

I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep,…

— Warren G. Harding

“... but there lies a pain and longing in his eyes, a look of horror as he sees a batlike form crawl…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers…

— Hope Edelman

The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me.…

— Nicole Kidman

One day you'll miss me so much when I'm gone. You'll feel the pain that I have been feeling for a long…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of…

— Ian Mcewan