Longing Quotes · Page 50

When I wake up in the morning, I think of you. When I go to sleep at night, I think of you.…

— Anonymous

“Most of us spend all our working life dreaming of doing nothing, then when we end up doing nothing, we long for…

— Robert Black

“The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in my hands, I…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“If you look to anyone to satisfy your longing, you will think you need something more than him and what he has…

— Ted Dekker

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

— Stefan Zweig

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

— Michael Chabon

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

— Martin Luther

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

Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of…

— Saint Augustine

Her thoughts ran away to her girlhood with its passionate longing for adventure and she remembered the arms of men that had…

— Sherwood Anderson

We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease,…

— John Conyers

In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is…

— Guy Finley

“I ache to hear her tell me she loves me, but forcing her to put words to how she feels pushes her…

— C.J. Redwine

“Or are "being" and "having" thoroughly inaccurate verbs in the twisted skein of desire, where having someone's body to touch and being…

— André Aciman

Every unfulfilled aspiration of humanity in the past; all partial representation of perfect character; all sacrifices, nay, even those of idolatry, point…

— Frederick William Robertson

“I love the stillness of the wood; I love the music of the rill: I love the couch in pensive mood Upon…

— Lewis Carroll

And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us…

— Anonymous

“It was always with her now, that sadness, like one of those rare orchids you saw clinging to jungle branches on TV,…

— Michael Knight

“…suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered, song of frustrated…

— Lydia Millet

If I cry will you ever wipe away my tears, if I become weak will you still be there to keep me…

— Usman Ismaheel

“I had never thought about it, but summer was Dill by the fishpool smoking string, Dill's eyes alive with complicated plans to…

— Harper Lee

“He was angles and darkness, her opposite - a moon-creature to her sun, a slicing shadow to her glow. But that was…

— Laini Taylor

He [Wilhelm Reich] believed that the individual's walk, stance, and breath patterns revealed a specific character type. Reich thought chronic muscular tension…

— Judith Lynne Hanna

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

— Hermann Hesse

What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise language and…

— Rick Hilles

“Each in His Own Tongue A fire mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell, A jellyfish and a saurian, And…

— William Herbert Carruth

Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to…

— Sigrid Undset

We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials…

— Robert Bly

“From birth to death, from Monday to Monday, from morning to evening—all activities are routinized, and prefabricated. How should a man caught…

— Erich Fromm

My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the…

— William Shakespeare

The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting,…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“I suffer from chronic nostalgia. Looking back makes me dizzy, queasy, and I yearn for it, ache for it. I want it…

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon…

— Sam Storms

Lover's Entwined, Even apart, Fawning, Reaching, Trembling. Fear Absolute, Aspiration Divine, Anticipation Exquisite. Bound, Yet Free. Souls Quivering, Hearts Weeping, Minds Soaring,…

— Eric Nickel

“I gave way to a wave of home-sickness that almost shames me now when I recollect it. I find it impossible in…

— H. V. Morton

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true…

— Adam Johnson

What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problems—the meaning of life and…

— J. I. Packer

We fell silent and all joking ceased. We gazed mutely into each other's eyes and an intense longing for the fullest avowal…

— Frederic Chopin

She looked down again and I was stymied. I sat. Oh, this was enough to make me love her, because I was…

— Steve Martin