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Longing Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish,…
- A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...
- You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you…
- A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad…
- How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.
- For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship,…
- Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise…
- All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom…
More Longing Quotes
- The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of… — Saint Augustine
- Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from… — Teresa of Avila
- A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues… — Henry Ward Beecher
- There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings… — Saul Bellow
- Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to… — David Brainerd
- I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every… — Sandra Bullock
- The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how… — John le Carre
- Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put… — Coco Chanel
- Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers. — William Ames
- A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness… — Marguerite Duras
- I'm thinking of you, that's all I do, all the time. You're always the first and the last thing on this heart… — Dierks Bentley