“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 Copy Share Image
“Maybe I'd ignored longing so many times through the years until eventually I'd just stopped feeling it.” — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
You have no idea how hard it is to force myself to stop thinking about you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“To know if I'm alone in my longing, a lighthouse signaling to an empty sea.” — Colleen Oakley Copy Share Image
All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake. — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Everyone was just a lonely mouth, a mouth with teeth, a mouth with ventricles, a muddy hole of a mouth in the… — Lindsay Hunter Copy Share Image
The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The good news is that there is one kind of food you can never have too much of. The best way to… — Kate Wicker Copy Share Image
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy,… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I need you. We all long to express the importance of certain people in our lives; especially, when the person is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency. Those whom I deemed Changed to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed, Have aged and lost… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“My mother's perpetual now, tempting me with possibility. Weren't we silly, she might say? What was the matter with us? Let's be… — Susanna Sonnenberg Copy Share Image
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
“Jack is somewhere in this city, right now. The thought was like passing by a house where someone was grilling in the… — Jane Seville Copy Share Image
The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“When Jean and his mother left Etreuilles, Monsieur Sureau had gathered for them great boxfuls of hawthorn and of snowballs which Madame… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Deep within everyone's heart there always remains a sense of longing for that hour, that summer, that one brief moment of blossoming.… — Irene Nemirovsky Copy Share Image
Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar.… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
I could do it, you know... But why deny the Dementors? They're so longing to see you. — Remus Lupin Copy Share Image
A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals. — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering expresses the great natural potential of mind. — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“I really should be studying now, but you're much more important to me than a .50 calibre machine gun.” — Kara Martinelli Copy Share Image
Goodbyes are hard. It may be hard for the person leaving, but it's always harder for the one left behind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Believe me, I'm not longing for the days when I was going to become a lawyer. Especially come tax time. — Cris Collinsworth Copy Share Image
“I know that hunger for self-isolation, it eats u up. Disconnecting yourself from external world and longing to disappear.” — Shreya Gupta Copy Share Image
“I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
I keep myself busy with the things to do but every time I pause I still think of you — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Theres a difference between what we long for, what we settle for, and who we are meant for. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...that breath of relief that there is someone in the world, finally, who understands what hurts you.” — Lysley Tenorio Copy Share Image
How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound. — Elizabeth Ann Seton Copy Share Image
“Last night, lost in spaces between star—bays and lakes of clouds, I tossed and turned looking for you” — john j geddes Copy Share Image
