Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles. — John Masefield
And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to these would be… — Martine Leavitt
And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a… — Elizabeth Strout
She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists had been writing… — Sarah Dunn
Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away. — Madonna Ciccone
Lovers feel a certain burning in their hearts. A deep longing and desire to meet with the beloved creates that burning. To love God is… — Rajneesh
I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its… — Jean Rhys
Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his… — Homer
At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and flew circles around… — Sue Monk Kidd
The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer,… — Marsha Norman
Dorian used to watch you like a starving man who wants meat. Now he looks at you like he wants seconds. — Richelle Mead
I wondered what my father had looked like that day, how he had felt, marrying the lively and beautiful girl who was my mother. I… — Elizabeth Berg
How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go,… — Libba Bray
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… — Hermann Hesse
How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse
I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real. — Laura Whitcomb
Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just… — Alain de Botton
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity… — Mark Twain
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,… — Hermann Hesse
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… — Hermann Hesse
There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all… — Alain de Botton
That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance. — Paulo Coelho
In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at… — Toni Morrison
Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your… — Mary Ann Shaffer

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