Longed Quotes

183 quotes by 166 authors

The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very bad effect on… — Vasily Chuikov
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to… — Anatole France
When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who… — Jane Goodall
By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in… — Ravi Zacharias
She had, without realizing it at the time, learned to follow Nick's gaze, learned to learn his lust...his desires remained memorized within her. She looked… — Lorrie Moore
Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them. — Carson McCullers
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for… — Maya Angelou
Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men.… — Elizabeth Smart
For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me â€” as a girl and later as a woman… — Lisa See
From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next… — Graham Greene
I longed to know the world's name. — Robert Penn Warren
...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for. — Alan Hollinghurst
It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all… — C.S. Lewis
Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we… — C.S. Lewis
Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility has made you imagine them… — Andrew Sean Greer
Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the… — Vladimir Nabokov
Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated. — Jonathan Carroll
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
Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for. — Vladimir Nabokov
I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I… — Julio Cortazar

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