Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete… — Franz Kafka
The greatest tales, well told, awaken the fears and longings of the listeners. Each man hears a different story. Each is touched by it according… — Juliet Marillier
My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for Him who gave… — Ravi Zacharias
He who is too well off is always longing for something new. — Jacob Grimm
And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as… — Meg Wolitzer
They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
He found himself looking into many faces for potentional love, and seeing many people as shining vessels of possibility. Perhaps this time there would be… — Cassandra Clare
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular… — Anne Carson
Have you ever longed for someone so much, so deeply that you thought you would die? That your heart would just stop beating? I am… — Tracey Emin
We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the foolish love of… — David Levithan
You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had… — Maggie Stiefvater
To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position. — Elizabeth Gilbert
And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season… — Khalil Gibran
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease, and hunger. Untold… — John Conyers
More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and… — Mark Twain
My heart wont let you go, and I need you to know, I miss you. — Miley Cyrus
We are in this life as it were in another man's house.... In heaven is our home, in the world is our Inn: do not… — Gerhard
There is a tremendous desire and longing for love, but love needs great awareness. Only then can it reach its highest climax -- and that… — Rajneesh
What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
But people try love and because they are unconscious... their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of possessiveness, full of… — Rajneesh
Be patient, my friends; time rolls rapidly away; our longing has its end. The hour will strike, who knows how soon?- when the maternal lap… — Unknown Author
There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
America is a country ready to be taken-in fact, longing to be taken-by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process. — Arianna Huffington
Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. — Leon Kass

Who Wrote These Longing Quotes

783 authors contributed a total of 1,123 Longing Quotes, led by these top contributors: