Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad. — Homer
Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one… — Barbara Kingsolver
Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow. — Robin Hobb
What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved. — Lisa See
She couldn’t read his expression. As he started toward her, she recalled the way he’d seemed to glide through the sand the first time she’d… — Nicholas Sparks
Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances. — Robert Hass
The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other… — Gail Caldwell
Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other. — Kate Morton
I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare mutely at the… — Patrick Rothfuss
For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world… — Gregory David Roberts
I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day… — Tove Jansson
One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and… — Tim Burton
The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order. — Milan Kundera
There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such… — Franz Kafka
There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me. — Ira Gershwin
Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down with cutting remarks… — Libba Bray
She thought of the hardness and the coldness she had cultivated over those years and wondered if they were the mask she wore or if… — Megan Whalen Turner
One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen. — John O'Donohue
If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may… — Madeleine L'Engle
Any guy, even imaginary, would just feel like second best. Second best to what? I don't even have an image of the perfect boyfriend. I… — Tabitha Suzuma
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings. — Helen Keller
longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness — Elizabeth Gilbert
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes. — Helen Dunmore
Henry was learning that time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance, the kind that… — Jamie Ford
Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry upon 'the days… — Elizabeth Gaskell

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