Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

Suddenly his expression turned to alarm. He sprinted toward us. For a moment I had an absurd vision of myself on the cover of one… — Rick Riordan
His breath in my ear, he ran his tongue along the curved edge, sucking the fleshy lobe and my small diamond stud into his mouth,… — Tammara Webber
In that last dance of chances I shall partner you no more. I shall watch another turn you As you move across the floor. In… — Robin Hobb
Witch, do this for me, Find me a moon made of longing. Then cut it sliver thin, and having cut it, hang it high above… — Clive Barker
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring. — Vladimir Nabokov
Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for. — Laura Lippman
Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you. — Unknown Author
It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically,… — Louise GluÌˆck
Mornings at Blackwater" For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt, the feet of… — Mary Oliver
Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of… — Julie Anne Peters
That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing… — Edgar Allan Poe
Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross. — Guy Gavriel Kay
nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for Weak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected. Manifests itself in humans as a… — Charles Yu
Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me. — Louise Erdrich
I craved your warmth. I hugged myself, rubbing my fingers up and down. I guess people are like insects sometimes, drawn to heat, A kind… — Lucy Christopher
I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the small sea siren… — Federico Garcia Lorca
He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory. — Norton Juster
This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to love someone who… — Abbi Glines
It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am in one city,… — Suketu Mehta
The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It… — Enid Blyton
Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you… — Jane Urquhart
My library is an archive of longings. — Susan Sontag
Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealous readers.) But it was all too much—too… — James Patterson
Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see… — Isadora Duncan
I have loved you in every manner that my imagination could contrive. I have wanted you so deeply that my body sang with pain and… — Nick Bantock

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