Giving Quote by Carson McCullers

If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as…

— L. Frank Baum

Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more…

— Ellen Glasgow

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

— Anna Sui

People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find that ultimately…

— Desmond Tutu

Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step along the…

— Joan D. Chittister

Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal.

— Dean Koontz

Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And…

— Rumi

Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is…

— Jane Urquhart

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

— Gail Godwin

You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration,…

— Philip Sington

Longing on a large scale makes history.

— Don DeLillo