Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

They walked to school, talking about how much they were longing for the summer holidays. "Oh, I am planning things," said Jamie. "Great, great things.… — Sarah Rees Brennan
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the… — Oscar Wilde
Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to? — Ayn Rand
she kissed him with all the aching longing that being this close to him evoked; she kissed him in all the ways he had ever… — Judith McNaught
Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing… — Morrie Schwartz
And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges… — Peter Matthiessen
Most people are blind to magic. They move thru a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives and there’s nothing they can do… — Lev Grossman
She looked down again and I was stymied. I sat. Oh, this was enough to make me love her, because I was right with her,… — Steve Martin
The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we… — Jane Yolen
The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a… — George Santayana
Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
She was aware of the movement of his lips as he pressed soundless words in her palm. He released her, and the look he gave… — Lisa Kleypas
Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste… — Milan Kundera
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At… — Vladimir Nabokov
Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off… — Kazuo Ishiguro
[Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of… — Elisabeth Elliot
We knew our Father. There was no need for persuasion. Would not His Fatherliness be longing to give us our hearts' desire (if I may… — Amy Carmichael
And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father, Until it be according unto mine? But, no, Lord, no, that never shall be, rather… — Amy Carmichael
O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition. — Theodore Roethke
Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has… — Albert Einstein
A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty and joy and… — Justin Cronin
The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it. — Vera Nazarian
Longing hearts could only stand so much longing. — Margaret Mitchell

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