Quote by Keira Michelle Telford

“The thing about longing is this: It is easy to feel equal to wanting. It is rare to feel equal to having.”

— Helen Humphreys

“It is a longing so intense that it creates what it desires, it cannot endure any touch of correction; it is, as I say,…

— Shirley Jackson

“I envy no man, my wants and desires consumed by my search to quench their longing and my ability to accomplish every quest.”

— Dick Mawson

“You can get what you want. You have to passionately seek the life you desire.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“That the real source of all true longing is the human desire to attach ourselves to something infinite.”

— Shmuley Boteach

“I have a longing other than longing. other than what fills the chests of the years. Things approach it as if they know no…

— Adonis

“Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you'd think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never buy wanting…

— Lionel Shriver

“You do not get what you wish for, unless it be known to the source of your desire.”

— T.F. Hodge

“Wanting is as bad as wishing, I suppose, if the one who wants does nothing. Or can do nothing.”

— Carrie Anne Noble

“But I no longer had a taste for anything, a wish for anything, a love for anybody, a desire for anything whatever, any ambition,…

— Guy de Maupassant

“The story of my life is wanting, hungering, for what I cannot have or, perhaps, wanting what I dare not allow myself to have.”

— Roxane Gay