Longings Quotes

102 Longings quotes by 93 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
My library is an archive of longings. — Susan Sontag
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
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
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
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
Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. — Leon Kass
The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions,… — Peter Abrahams
Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings… — Rafael Yglesias
How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and… — Jane Welsh Carlyle
Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are… — Richard Bach
At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish,… — Hermann Hesse
Oh FUCK the longings and agonies of youth. — John Irving
To whet our longings for fruitive or experimental knowledge, it is reserved among the prerogatives of being in heaven, to know how happy we shall… — Robert Boyle
I'm truly thankful that Life's blows knocked me off the Ivory Tower that so comfortably afforded me the luxury of looking down upon and judging… — Unknown Author
A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the… — Ritu Ghatourey
Let us have done with vain regrets and longings for the days that never will be ours again. Our work lies in front, not behind… — Ritu Ghatourey

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