Longing Quotes

1123 quotes by 783 authors

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be… — Laura Dern
There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. — Judi Dench
This sense of being made in God's image calls us all constantly to look for it in others and to do what we can to… — Marva Dawn
That adolescent me, the girl who was, as I remember her, insecure, unsure, dreaming, yearning, longing, that girl who was hard on herself, who was… — Norma Fox Mazer
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth is not wrong.… — Gary Snyder
In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest,… — Joseph Conrad
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard… — George Bernard Shaw
Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing… — Susan Sontag
There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical connotations; C.S. Lewis… — Julian Barnes
And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to… — Conor Oberst
The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us… — Sebastian Barry
This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he knows that this… — Michael Chekhov
A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know. — Anni Albers
If today's arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies an instinctive repudiation… — Oskar Schlemmer
Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and… — James Russell Lowell
We are the total of our longings. — Guy Gavriel Kay
Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings,… — Saul Bellow
You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires. — Wallace D. Wattles
True values entail suffering. Thatâ€™s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer music and art… — Lars von Trier
I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself… — James Wolcott

Who Wrote These Longing Quotes

783 authors contributed a total of 1,123 Longing Quotes, led by these top contributors: