Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful - a suffering continual… — Brian Kolodiejchuk
Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them. — Carson McCullers
When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens… — Katherine Dunn
We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags;… — Paul Tournier
For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy,… — Doris Lessing
Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. — Milan Kundera
The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came… — C.S. Lewis
I shook so that it was some time before I realized that he was shaking too, and for the same reason. I don't know how… — Diana Gabaldon
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach. — Ayn Rand
I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it. — Ayn Rand
There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is… — Bell Hooks
Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their… — Cormac McCarthy
The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts… — Carl Jung
He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking… — Milan Kundera
homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into… — W. E. B. Du Bois
How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship… — Gordon B. Hinckley
It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman… — Charlotte Bronte
. . .There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your heart is tender; a… — Sara Zarr
They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
I knew, even as we touched that I had never wanted anything more in all my life. All my crabbed cravings were as a cupful… — Stephen R. Lawhead
Writing is a constant exercise in longing. — Isabel Allende
Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys.… — David Gerrold
our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home. — Isak Dinesen
We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather… — Rebecca Solnit

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