Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire… — George Eliot
To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly… — Marilynne Robinson
...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for. — Alan Hollinghurst
There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state… — Ian Mcewan
Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For, boy, however we… — William Shakespeare
I felt instantly at home, and wanted only to dismiss Alistair, along with the rest of Justice Hall, that I might have a closer look… — Laurie R. King
Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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
Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of… — Haruki Murakami
My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather… — Leonard Cohen
They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost all alike; in… — Rainer Maria Rilke
If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the… — Hans Christian Andersen
We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in… — Madeleine L'Engle
What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? --Gravity's Rainbow, V699 — Thomas Pynchon
...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and… — Louisa May Alcott
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If… — Junot Diaz
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing. — Barbara Kingsolver
The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting — Andy Warhol
God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the… — Unknown Author
For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our… — Richard John Neuhaus
What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? — Lawrence Durrell
Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will… — John O'Donohue
But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn… — Ayn Rand
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is… — Milan Kundera
Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my grievances and indecencies,… — Frederick Buechner

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