Longing Quotes · Page 27

The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.

— Pankaj Mishra

“In making God our buddy, we find Him nice for cuddling but not much help when the hurricane comes. UNFULFILLED LONGING FOR”

— James MacDonald

The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.

— Vera Nazarian

That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.

— Paulo Coelho

We all have that incomplete love story hidden inside our hearts. Which still sometimes makes a reason for our sleepless nights!

— Anonymous

I still remember the days when you here with me. But I miss you even more.

— Anonymous

“And it seemed to me that longing was everything, longing is all we are.”

— Valerie Martin

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

— Robert Bly

When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?” (…) A sigh of longing. “To be honest,…

— Gena Showalter

“Every human being is longing for involvement. Not for touch, not for a kiss, not for sex, not for anything else; one…

— Sadhguru

“There I was, Talking to you in the language of sunsets. I wanted to hold that luminous wind in my hair, to…

— Monica Laura Rapeanu

Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that…

— Lauren Groff

And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world,…

— Gautama Buddha

Nothing was the same ever since you left. Many have came and went but they remind me of the past. I was…

— Anonymous

I sometimes think of you and wish we would have been together. But life is not perfect, so I've learned that everything…

— Anonymous

I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“There is a hunger in every human heart, which nothing can satisfy or appease — a hunger for something more true than…

— G. de Purucker

I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have…

— R. S. Thomas

Communism is an aspiration, an aspiration is an ideal, a dream, a longing of something that would be perfect, but hard to…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from…

— Naomi Wolf

We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. We were taught…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder…

— Fernando Pessoa

“All my life I have longed to be alone in a place like this. Even when everything was going well, as it…

— Per Petterson

“For all her culture's attention to the physical, it seemingly has little to salve the creatural anguish of losing someone else's body,…

— Michelle Latiolais

Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.

— Nathanael Emmons

All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.

— Richard Chenevix Trench

Goodbyes are hard. It may be hard for the person leaving, but it's always harder for the one left behind.

— Anonymous

Believe me, I'm not longing for the days when I was going to become a lawyer. Especially come tax time.

— Cris Collinsworth

“I know that hunger for self-isolation, it eats u up. Disconnecting yourself from external world and longing to disappear.”

— Shreya Gupta

“I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language.”

— Lauren Slater

I keep myself busy with the things to do but every time I pause I still think of you

— Anonymous

I could do it, you know... But why deny the Dementors? They're so longing to see you.

— Remus Lupin

A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals.

— Ralph Peters

The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering expresses the great natural potential of mind.

— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

“I really should be studying now, but you're much more important to me than a .50 calibre machine gun.”

— Kara Martinelli

“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

You have no idea how hard it is to force myself to stop thinking about you.

— Anonymous

“Maybe I'd ignored longing so many times through the years until eventually I'd just stopped feeling it.”

— Patti Callahan Henry

When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The first half of life is spent in longing for the second - the second half in regretting the first.

— French Proverb