Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

He and his wife loved each other and brought each other daily pain. Everything else he was doing in his life, even his longing for… — Jonathan Franzen
She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. — Jean Rhys
Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These were things you… — Elizabeth Hand
I have done what they expected of me. I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut. This is what I have anticipated eagerly… — Libba Bray
Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name… — Derrick Bell
One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could stare at the stars for hours, their infinite number and… — Maggie Stiefvater
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done,… — Warren G. Bennis
All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure. — Theodore Roethke
She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in… — Anna Godbersen
Celia, wait,” Marco says, standing but not moving closer to her. “You are breaking my heart. You told me once that I reminded you of… — Erin Morgenstern
But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that… — David Levithan
Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places… — Sigrid Undset
He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and sleep and bare… — Josh Lanyon
History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has… — Wendell Berry
It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they would wander to… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me! — Fernando Pessoa
Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women.… — Naomi Wolf
I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every… — Isabel Allende
By the River Piedra I sat down and wept. There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves,… — Paulo Coelho
I have not lost my fascination with death. I have not become a noticeably less intense person. I have not, nor will I ever, completely… — Marya Hornbacher
I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent… — Barbara Kingsolver
there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for… — E E Cummings
No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power… — Arthur C. Clarke
Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing… — Barbara Kingsolver
They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and… — Tim O'Brien

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