He Longed Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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The life of Christ was a life charged with a divine message of the love of God, and He longed intensely to impart this love…
— Ellen G. White
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...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.
— Alan Hollinghurst
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This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom.…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming…
— Franz Kafka
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My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that…
— Guy Gavriel Kay
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He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. In this community of Yskalnari there was harmony, but no love. He no longer…
— Michael Ende
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Smarmy little prig,†Will snarled, leaning father forward, as if he longed to reach through the magical portal and strangle Gabriel. “When I get him…
— Cassandra Clare
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He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to…
— Cornelia Funke
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You must do whatever you think is best. But I know one thing. Nothing meant more to Graystripe than your friendship and his Clan. Even…
— Erin Hunter
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He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to…
— Thornton Wilder
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When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought…
— Norton Juster
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For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of that gentle familiar…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found.
— Ronald Blythe
Who Wrote These He Longed Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 16 He Longed Quotes as follows: