Life Quote by Valerie Martin

“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to…

— George Eliot

“Afterward I remembered these things very clearly, with that longing we feel sometimes to recover a state of life that we have lost for…

— Barry Unsworth

“There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.”

— Deborah L. Norris

“I have Immortal longings in me.”

— William Shakespeare

“We exist in the world, yet we live in the mind. When it becomes still, we leave longing behind.”

— Glenn A. Maltais

“The only thing I have learned from life is to endure it, never to question it, and to burn up the longing generated by…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“I do not want to spend my life clinging stubbornly to wispy memories of a happiness that may have never been.”

— Mako Yoshikawa

“And there remains people in your life that you remember, wishing if, either, they stayed longer or never came in the first place.”

— Sarah Adel

“So much longing. So many lives filled with longing. It's what stories― all our stories― are made of. And what is longing made of…

— Marion Dane Bauer

“It seems sometimes that we get so caught up in missing the past, or looking forward to the future, that we forget that this,…

— John A. Ashley

“This life was fleeting, and I was still searching for the way I wanted to spend it that would make me happy, full, okay…

— Sarah Dessen

“Am I the only one wishing life away? Never caught up in the moment busy begging the past to stay Memories painted with much…

— Dodie Clark