Longing Quotes

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...

It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds - this, and that brief madness of bliss...

She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she...

‎"It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a...

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

I have become a sour woman. I take no joy in meat nor mead, and song and laughter have become suspic...

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

...perhaps, also this short embrace may infuse in their veins a little of this thrill which they wou...

So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the ...

I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you.

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

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is f...

Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and youcatch a glimpse of a tiny light i...

A pine tree standeth lonelyIn the North on an upland bare;It standeth whitely shroudedWith snow, and...

Sadly as some old mediaeval knightGazed at the arms he could no longer wield,The sword two-handed an...

At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, al...

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribe...

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens...

Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook,The longing of the spirit can never be...

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to ...

There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in t...

At moments when Herman fantasized about a new metaphysics, or even a new religion, he based everythi...

What I did not know was how longing could store itself away in the hollows of one's bones and then o...

Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.

When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the drea...

And you’ll miss me more as the narrowing weeks wing by. Someday duly, oneday truly, twosday newly, t...

All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a ...

Memories lurk like dustballs in the backs of drawers. The stereo is a special model that plays only ...

I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the te...

Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.

You can miss a person you've never known.

You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be...

Methinks I lied all winter, when I sworeMy love was infinite, if spring makes it more.

You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them.

There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when ...

I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything.

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream...

I recognise your body in liana; your expression in the eyes of a frightened gazelle; the beauty of y...

I could wish to spy the nakedness of their hearts, and through the different disguises of customs, c...

I know she is coming I know she will look And that is the longing And this is the book.

The RemoteI often think about youwhen I’m lying alone inmy room with my mouthopen and the remotelost...

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so m...

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

I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the ...

Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my h...

You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was ...

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

This was to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some even greater variation, that she...

... which would enable him to prolong for the time being, and to renew for one day more the disappoi...

When Jean and his mother left Etreuilles, Monsieur Sureau had gathered for them great boxfuls of haw...

He made what apology he could and hurried home, overjoyed that the satisfaction of his curiosity had...

He loved her; in some ways he was devoted to her. But he couldn't reach her, and it was the same on ...

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert...

She was a music I no longer heard, that rang in my mind, itself and nothing else, lost to all sense,...

You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope yo...

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the ton...

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or "sweetness.

I mean, by such flightiness, something that feels unsatisfied at the center of my life — that makes ...

Until the longing came again, like the longing that you hear in the whistle of a train that is going...

The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except...

We can't stop reading. Compulsively we find ourselves reading significance into dreams (we construct...

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

And what if Miriam and I were never to be reconciled?

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...