Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by… — Margaret Mitchell
Some feelings are stronger than fear: love, longing, desire. — Luanne Rice
But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it… — Elizabeth Berg
We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of… — Vincent Van Gogh
So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And… — Mary Oliver
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly… — Rainer Maria Rilke
My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody. — Robert Burns
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant. — Martin Heidegger
If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature… — L. Frank Baum
I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we… — Orhan Pamuk
For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of that gentle familiar… — Elizabeth Gaskell
And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he was thinking--how in… — Jess Walter
I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and… — Jeanette Winterson
Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something. — Peter HÃ¸eg
Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it… — Philip Sington
Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less… — Judith Butler
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks… — Octavio Paz
My "heart". Does that pitiful organ still represent anything? It lies motionless in my chest, pumping no blood, serving no purpose, and yet my feelings… — Isaac Marion
Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this… — Albert Camus
We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact… — Ben Okri
Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently… — Fernando Pessoa
Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our… — Friedrich Nietzsche
More than anything, the journal wanted. It wanted more than it could hold, more than words could describe, more than diagrams could illustrate. Longing burst… — Maggie Stiefvater
When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge… — Hope Edelman
I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can… — Franz Kafka

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