Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

It makes utter sense to stay healthy and strong, to be as nourishing to the body as possible. Yet I would have to agree, there… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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… — Hermann Hesse
This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?" "I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're… — Orson Scott Card
So much wanting and longing, clutching, desiring, passion and hatred and terrible need. Here, death was suitable, there was room for it, the grip of… — Janet Fitch
Longing on a large scale makes history. — Don DeLillo
...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all… — Marisha Pessl
Sometimes we let our thoughts of tomorrow take up too much of today. Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort… — Thomas S. Monson
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the… — Carson McCullers
as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master… — Bell Hooks
The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private lives… — Jonathan Kozol
Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her heart, so I… — Anne Rice
Longing surged up within me. I wanted it. Oh God, I wanted it. I didn't want to hear Jerome chastise me for my "all lowlifes,… — Richelle Mead
We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one… — Anne Lamott
Warm are the still and lucky miles, White shores of longing stretch away, A light of recognition fills The whole great day, and bright The… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books… — Cornelia Funke
I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It is as if… — Libba Bray
The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light. — Jon Krakauer
There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing. — Khalil Gibran
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A… — Nelson Algren
Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world, but after a… — Heather Brewer
Then she took my hand and touched it to the wound beside her eye. I caressed the half-inch scar. As I did so, the waves… — Haruki Murakami
And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came… — Khalil Gibran
A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death. — Saul Bellow
From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of… — Cornelia Funke

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