Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses… — Joyce Carol Oates
and i don't just mean that they change you. a lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name,… — Sara Zarr
The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure. — Cornelia Funke
I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your… — Lisa Kleypas
We are homesick most for the places we have never known. — Carson McCullers
As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have come equipped with… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Longing is not always a reciprocal thing. — Kate DiCamillo
Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told. — Paul Simon
Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to… — Cormac McCarthy
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more - this essential energy… — Brennan Manning
There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them. — Unknown Author
My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom… — Hermann Hesse
But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of… — George MacDonald
All that produces longing in the heart deprives the heart of freedom. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation; and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance.… — Martin Buber
You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house-- , and you almost stepped… — Rainer Maria Rilke
...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing. — Jack Kerouac
I'd rather do something than read about it." "That's fine, but if you do it, and then can't think what it means, it's never much… — Dean Hughes
Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living. — Jim Elliot
I am the man you've needed all you life. I can give you whatever you wish before you even realize you are wishing for it.… — Karen Marie Moning
Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always… — Francesca Lia Block
The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes. — David Mitchell
A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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