Longing Quote by Joseph Carlson

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased…

— Simone Weil

“Haunted by the longing to feel something real, deep and magical; I searched for a shared ecstasy... that's when you came along.”

— Lebo Grand

Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the…

— Esther Perel

Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?

— Li-Young Lee

Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She pretended not to notice the look of longing in his eyes. It didn’t mean anything.”

— Kevin O'Brien

The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“My only enemy is the miles of distance that's there between us, my favorite place is the road that leads me to you -…

— Jyoti Patel

The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some…

— Anonymous

By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it…

— Elizabeth Strout

But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily…

— David Levithan

Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be…

— Anonymous