Desire Quote by Allegra Goodman

“Longing did not even begin to describe the dark, blissful, almost painful feeling that rose within me. It was as if I was truly…

— Katherine Pine

“Desire is sad.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to…

— George Eliot

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

— Valerie Martin

“The thing about longing is this: It is easy to feel equal to wanting. It is rare to feel equal to having.”

— Helen Humphreys

“So much longing. So many lives filled with longing. It's what stories― all our stories― are made of. And what is longing made of…

— Marion Dane Bauer

“Underneath the longing and the fever of anticipation; there was a need. He needed her to do this to him, for him . It…

— Alex Morgan

“He knew now that when power and ambition and curiosity were satisfied, there still were left the longings of the heart.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“It occurred to me that more than loss, it was the longing that hurt the most.”

— Samantha Young

“He's always had a nameless, unanchored longing; and when, at critical points in his life, a period of intense longing coincided with the appearance…

— Josephine Humphreys

“Life is very strange. Here we miss the very thing that we crave for and cling to, and we find what we don’t seek.…

— Osho

“I felt a wave of longing roll out of me, but not the way it usually did, diffuse and sad. This was hopeful, as…

— Michele Jaffe