Longing Quotes · Page 11

Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.

— Georges Bataille

But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.

— Teresa of Avila

You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.

— Elizabeth Hay

“He doesn’t desire me. This is not longing, or love. This is hate-sex”

— D.S. Wrights

“I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man.”

— Anton Chekhov

You can not yearn for more time when you make not full use of the hours you have now.

— Deri Isaac

I thought I'm over with you, but each time I think of somebody special, it's always you.

— Terry Mark

“In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“He invaded my consciousness in the same way the ocean washes up on the beach, with sweeping tides of longing and regret,…

— Vicki Pettersson

We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and…

— Ron Pope

From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the…

— Swami Vivekananda

If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart…

— Cyndi Lauper

There was a woman. First time I found someone that was truly alive. At least thats what I thought. She was the…

— Anonymous

“If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. But after all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I…

— V.C. Andrews

“Writing is the voice that calls us from dreams, that peeks out of the corner of our eyes when we think no…

— Judy Collins

“I'm going to have to get an entirely new social scene if I want to avoid him,' she said, hunting for evidence…

— Olivia Sudjic

“Annie didn't reply, her own words about death reminding her of the terror that had consumed her when she dropped beneath the…

— John Shors

“Two gallons is a great deal of wine, even for two paisanos. Spiritually the jugs maybe graduated thus: Just below the shoulder…

— John Steinbeck

“Nearly a Valediction" You happened to me. I was happened to like an abandoned building by a bull- dozer, like the van…

— Marilyn Hacker

“And George Farr had the town, the earth, the world to himself and his sorrow. Music came faint as a troubling rumor…

— William Faulkner

Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless…

— Muriel Barbery

“We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched.…

— Jeanette Winterson

We are the mirror, as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute. We are…

— Rumi

“Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our…

— Gregory David Roberts

“What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.”

— William Shakespeare

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to…

— Ayn Rand

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

— Tony Kushner

Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.

— E. L. Doctorow

Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?

— Amos Oz

My heart longs for you, my soal die's for you, my eyes cry for you, my empty arms reach out for you.

— Anonymous

“Speaking felt impossible, as contained and enclosed as she was, a longing that went on a loop, a longing for nothing at…

— Catherine Lacey

What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.

— Lisa See

Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only…

— Richard Chenevix Trench

“Nothing was eaten in the house that was not seasoned in the broth of longing.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.

— Joseph Hertz

Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.

— John Eldredge

And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

— Anonymous

“Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair. [Songs of Longing]”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Dependence, she knew, and the longing for more than what you had, led to unhappiness and discontent.”

— Nora Roberts