Longing Quotes

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone...

In all my wanderings through this world of care,In all my griefs -- and God has given my share --I s...

...the waiting was torture, the worst Ka had ever known. It was this pain, this deadly wait, he now ...

As I was looking at myself in the bathroom mirror, it occurred to me that if all else failed, a man ...

I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and make...

I yearned for everything long gone.

Sufre mas el que espera siempreque aquel que nunca espero a nadie?Does he who is always waiting suff...

Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.

Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the f...

We look before and after,And pine for what is not;Our sincerest laughterWith some pain is fraught;Ou...

We look before and after, And pine for what is not:Our sincerest laughterWith some pain is fraught;O...

Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spr...

If you do not want to write, at least spit on a piece of paper, put it in an envelope, and send it t...

And the heart has become so tired, and the longing so vast.

And in fact the artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pl...

Thou I cannot so freely say, My heart is with thee, my soul longeth after thee ; yet can I say, I lo...

30 cents, two transfers, loveThinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and...

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

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny an...

You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its su...

You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its su...

Also – for there had been more than a few migrants aboard, yes, quite a quantity of wives who had be...

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

What', said he, ' makes the difference between man and all the rest of the animal creation? Every be...

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

Home is where they want you to stay longer

My library is an archive of longings.

Desire wills its perpetuation ad infinitum.

I call him my friend, but in the last year it's seemed too casual a word for what Gale is to me. A p...

I am helpless as the sea at the end of her string. I am restless. Restless and useless. I, too, crea...

I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.

She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a se...

What the dead had no speech for, when living,They can tell you, being dead: the communicationOf the ...

It had been dark at the beach for hours, he hadn't been smoking much and it wasn't headlights – but ...

One evening he was in his room, his brow pressing hard against the pane, looking, without seeing the...

In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction tha...

How happy he must be, this Hobgoblin," exclaimed Sniff."He isn't a bit," replied Snufkin, "and he wo...

Now you can all have a wish -- the Moomin family first!"Moominmamma hesitated a bit. "Should it be s...

The voice of the waves was now mixed with strange sounds; laughter, running feet and the clanging of...

Have you ever longed for someone so much, so deeply that you thought you would die? That your heart ...

Oh, if only I could hurt with such misery once again, to feel the powers of love here inside my hear...

To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want a...

It was as if she had thought him into existence again, as if her mind were a flask into which had be...

Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its co...

She looks after him, feeling a wave of longing, loneliness. Not sexual particularly but to do with t...

Name me no names for my disease,With uninforming breath;I tell you I am none of these,But homesick u...

Sometimes I wish I could describe how wonderful I feel in those few seconds from the time he spreads...

I couldn't reach him from here even if I tried.

We ache with the yearningthat turns half into wholeand offer no excusesfor the beauty of our souls.

Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot aff...

While a common reaction to seeing a thing of beauty is to want to buy it, our real desire may be not...

Our stomachs live in towns," said Mma Potokwani, patting the front of her dress. 'That is where the ...

You are ice and fire The touch of you burns my hands like snow

Will it be here that we shall find a place which will not elude us, or which if it remains does not ...

I gave up hoping...But, still, I would think of him, I would cherish his image in my mind, and treas...

To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

There are things that will not have themselves buried and put out of sight, as though they had never...

I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man.

I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, ...

With total rapture and delight he talks about the birds which he can see from his prison window, and...

Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in...

...and I suddenly feel that Henry is there, incredible need for Henry to be there and to put his han...

You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place...like you'll not only miss the people ...

She was lost in her longing to understand.

He is on his way to her. In a moment he will leave the wooden sidewalks and vacant lots for the pave...

All my life the god of the Mountain has been wooing me.

The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in m...

Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. ...

She did not tell him this, because it would hurt him to know she had felt that way for a while, that...

Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, b...

Witch, do this for me,Find me a moonmade of longing.Then cut it sliver thin,and having cut it,hang i...

I believe that we are arks of the covenant and our true nature is not rage or deceit or terror or lo...

Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that ...

It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.

Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you.

Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet.

In the Village IIIWho has removed the typewriter from my desk,so that I am a musician without his pi...

Who am I? They often tell me I would step from my cell's confinement calmly, cheerfully, firmly, lik...

I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater. L...

Yet my longing for her was like a bad cold that had hung on for years despite my conviction that I w...

The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

He lived to near the things he loved to seem poetical.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it'...

I thought once how Theocritus had sungOf the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,Who each one...

My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!And yet they seem alive and quiveringAgainst my tremulous...

It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thought...

The temptation is too strong for me. Oh, Lord! where is Thy peace that I believed in, in my childhoo...

Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—real...

I had to do something about my longing, so I got up, went to the kitchen in my nightgown, peeled a p...

But I love him.""So love him.""But I miss him.""So miss him. Send him love and light every time you ...

On the train I saw that world passing my window. It was when I came to see it was I who was passing ...

Year after year of dirty snow and bitter winds… houses and whole districts of people who aren’t real...

The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing f...

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

It occurs to me that I really can't remember your face in any precise detail. Only the way you walke...

I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neut...