Longing Quotes

The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.

Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life.

Only longing can fill with more of itself.

It is not possible to achieve by vigilance in anger and revenge what the soul is longing for. The soul longs for peace.

When meditation makes you realize that you have so many limitations of your own and they are all created by you, the longing to break them will come.

In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes.

One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.

Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.

Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be.

She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around.

Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.

All that produces longing in the heart deprives it of its freedom.

My mind is full of secrets I'm too afraid to tell. My body's full of longing for you to know me well.

The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.

There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.

Longing is all that lasts.

Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.

My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.

I lose hope when the desire for life awakens within me; but I regain it whenever the longing for death comes upon me.

Longing performs all things

Poetry keeps longing alive.

If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.

The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing.

Some feelings are stronger than fear: love, longing, desire.

What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?

Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.

We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.

We seek fulfillment in our lives through heart connection with others. This is our soul's essence of joy, which spontaneously pulses through us, longing to share itself with another.

I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.

Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

You can miss a person you've never known.

All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful.

His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain.

I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.

People often miss things that don't exist--miss things that were but are not anymore.

Sometimes, language is the sound of longing

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

I wanted so terribly to be good to him.

It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds.

Oh, if only I could hurt with such misery once again, to feel the powers of love here inside my heart, the joys of heaven and the pains of hell!

And there you have it...if I knew that I could only have a few nights in that man's arms or nothing, I would take those magic nights and use them to keep me warm for the rest of my life.