Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in… — C.S. Lewis
The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth.… — Anne Lamott
But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our… — Matthew Arnold
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with… — W. Somerset Maugham
It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden… — John Steinbeck
Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to… — Donna Tartt
For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like… — Barbara Kingsolver
Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing. — John O'Donohue
She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there? — Lorrie Moore
...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret… — Mary Doria Russell
Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies… — Kathi Appelt
Her thoughts ran away to her girlhood with its passionate longing for adventure and she remembered the arms of men that had held her when… — Sherwood Anderson
O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and… — William Ernest Henley
The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call… — Robin McKinley
Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It’s unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure as love, except… — John Dufresne
Tired of myself longing for what I have not — Samuel Richardson
In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead. — Tony Kushner
They asked him for help rebuilding the farm, but e only shook his head with a pang of longing in his heart. I'm tracking your… — Christopher Paolini
[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels… — Robin McKinley
If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose… — Khaled Hosseini
There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot. — Wendell Berry
I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be… — Albert Camus
The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm… — C.S. Lewis

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