Longing Quotes · Page 13

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

— Maurice Saatchi

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

— Gail Godwin

You're like a star, only for my eyes to see, never for my hands to hold.

— Anonymous

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

— Albert Einstein

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

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

— Ranata Suzuki

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

— Anonymous

“The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands and let the stars swirl…

— Beth Revis

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and…

— Eliza Griswold

“Sighs are the gales that blow us to heaven, I sometimes think; they breathe unconscious weariness of the “here,” and longing for…

— Rhoda Broughton

Spirituality is man's conscious longing for God. Spirituality tells us that God, who is unknowable today, will tomorrow become knowable and, the…

— Sri Chinmoy

I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire…

— Mary Anne Radmacher

No one is longing to meet a desperate needy, angry, withholding, controlling person. If your beloved is out there they can't pick…

— Marianne Williamson

“I wrote a poem once — a simple thing, but instinct with longing — while sitting under a tree and listening to…

— Jerome K. Jerome

There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It…

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

They walked to school, talking about how much they were longing for the summer holidays. "Oh, I am planning things," said Jamie.…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

This isn't a crush, it's obsession.You are never not in my thoughts. Your scent carries across a room and paralyzes me with…

— Anonymous

“The vivid memory of the woods had blossomed into a visceral longing for the Ridge, so immediate that I felt the ghost…

— Diana Gabaldon

“After a dazed moment, Specialist Kit Murphy put his arms loosely around her, and Josie Schaeffer clung to him, knowing this man…

— Siobhan Fallon

The gospel of a God found in broken flesh, humility, and measureless charity has defeated all the old lies, rendered the ancient…

— David Bentley Hart

“He began to suffocate slowly in the more and more rarefied atmosphere of remoteness and solitude. For now it was his wish…

— Hermann Hesse

I hold your picture but not your body, I kiss your picture but not your lips, I see your smile from the…

— Usman Ismaheel

Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The…

— Leigh Bardugo

Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing.

— John O'Donohue

Sometimes my eyes get jealous of my heart. Because you always remain close to my heart and far from my eyes.

— Anonymous

Longing, craving the love is incomplete. Isiliaanant too, because infinity is not always possible to perfection

— Mak_786

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I write to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance

— Anonymous

Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.

— Alexander MacLaren

So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.

— Sonia Sanchez

The longing for Europe has been all but extinguished in the young.

— Allan Bloom

Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.

— Meghan O'Rourke

You aren't the one that got away, you're the one that left before I could hold on.

— Anonymous

“If you are not grateful for what you have, how do you know that you will be grateful for the thing that…

— Jeremiah Browne

“I miss you. I miss you. I miss you, I miss you. Be ready, because when I see you, I'll never let…

— Veronica Rossi

“Her tears still lay, unattended, on my bosom...I wouldn't wipe them, for she might stop paying me visits.”

— Aporva Kala

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

— Kate Baldwin

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

— Carson McCullers

I sit all alone smiling, I want going mad but I'm reminiscing into the wonderful times we spent smiling together.

— Usman Ismaheel