Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

Look, it's a monster. He's walking alone. Look, he's pulling something out of his pocket. He threw it on the ground. Let's go see what… — Henry Rollins
It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking… — John Galsworthy
Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids, Which haven't faded yet. In their nights, fragrantly resinous,… — Anna Akhmatova
When we are passionately in love with our Prince, we put Him above all else--not just in theory, but also practically, in every moment of… — Leslie Ludy
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. — Malcolm Muggeridge
He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man. — Milan Kundera
You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far away. A place… — Lucy Christopher
Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and… — Nick Cave
I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I will make something… — Vincent Van Gogh
She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone else and sought… — Ken Follett
I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and… — George R. R. Martin
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all… — Rollo May
Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as… — Suzanne Collins
Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes… — Jon Krakauer
The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the… — Meindert DeJong
There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from… — Thomas Mann
Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a… — Frederick Buechner
That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too. — Kaui Hart Hemmings
And we'd look at each other the way you do when you see someone on the street you think you recognize, but not quite. Someone… — Michele Jaffe
The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature.… — Jeanette Winterson
And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing. — Khalil Gibran
God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the… — N. T. Wright
How wonderful," he purred. "I've been longing to speak to you for days, Princess Cecelia." "And I've been wanting to kick you in the shin… — Jessica Day George

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