Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses. — Elizabeth Hay
The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are… — Fernando Pessoa
Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard. — Sigmund Freud
I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air. — Bram Stoker
I had never thought about it, but summer was Dill by the fishpool smoking string, Dill's eyes alive with complicated plans to make Boo Radley… — Harper Lee
Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an example to his… — Stephen Fry
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?” (…) A sigh of longing. “To be honest, I wanted to… — Gena Showalter
here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing… — Daphne du Maurier
... Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then… — Thomas Bernhard
The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. — Alain de Botton
Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn with them. It… — HalldÃ³r Laxness
It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without… — Ted Dekker
She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of her. That she was worth… — Cassandra Clare
We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie. — Michael Ondaatje
There is no man on the face of the earth who can satisfy the deepest longings of a woman's heart--God made us in such a… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Spiritual fulfillment doesn't have to mean belief in a religion or disbelief in science. ... Whether one believes in an unseen, all-knowing force, or the… — Cesar Millan
She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him… — Kate Chopin
What all the ads and whorescopes seemed to imply was that if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your… — Erica Jong
Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than pay The hopeless… — Matthew Arnold
There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time… — Gregory Maguire
We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one… — Stormie Omartian
Most lead lives at worst so painful, at best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if… — Aldous Huxley
The world is not made of countries and outsiders. We are all just humans, and most of us fools and all of us longing for… — Catherynne M. Valente
I came to Him because I did not know which way to turn. I remained with Him because there is no other way I wish… — Ravi Zacharias

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