Longing Quotes

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.

You can miss a person you've never known.

But she had dreamed of being his for too long. He had quite ruined her for a marriage of convenience. She wanted everything from him: his mind, his body, his name and, most of all, his heart.

I kept it to remind me that although there is evil, there is sometimes beauty and light. You, Jillian. You were always my light.

But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

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

I wanted so terribly to be good to him.

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!

Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.

...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into.

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

In Cuba we are building a socialist society and we could say we are on the verge of a communist society which is hard to achieve, very hard to achieve, but is a longing worth fighting for.

Never cut loose from your longings.

Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?

It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all.

That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes an immigrant story into an American story .

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

America is a country ready to be taken - in fact, longing to be taken - by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.

Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine."

Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . .

Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

The thing that attracts people to "The Sopranos" is the family element. It shows that America still has a longing for that traditional upbringing.

They asked him for help rebuilding the farm, but e only shook his head with a pang of longing in his heart. I'm tracking your killers",he whispered to his uncle.-Eragon

I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a thriller writer, essentially.

Initially, less appealing to me than the idea of a vampire that is drawn by some misgiving or drawn by some sense of longing that he can't quite satiate.

We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing of the human soul.

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

The longing to be holy makes us weep, and we trust tears since they are made of water and come from our body, a double blessing.

People are better inside in your head. When you're longing for them, they're perfect.

Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.

Longing alone is singer to the lute.

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.

I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book.

Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.

It's not so difficult to acknowledge that we lack wisdom. When we pray and seek God's wisdom with a longing for a deeper fullness of the life of Christ, then we will always find something to pursue.

C.S. Lewis had a big influence on me in this spiritual realm - this sort of sense of longing. A longing for a knowledge that is just outside of our reach, a knowledge for a spiritual connection.

At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.

The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light.

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . .

I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.

He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream.