Longing Quotes

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. (Arianna Huffington)
If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life. View quote
Anna Freud
Happiness is the longing for repetition. View quote
Milan Kundera
Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature. View quote
Anna Sui
A feeling of sadness and longing That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
O suffering, sad humanity O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It must be so - Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. View quote
Joseph Addison
Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. View quote
Bertrand Russell
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. (Edgar Lee Masters)
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for. View quote
Saul Bellow
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing. View quote
Meg Wolitzer
The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations. View quote
Alva Myrdal
Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them. View quote
Carson McCullers
The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure. View quote
Cornelia Funke
And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore. View quote
Sela Ward
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union. View quote
Rollo May
All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure. View quote
Theodore Roethke
I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it. (Ayn Rand)
My soul is full of longing For the secret of the Sea, And the heart of the great ocean Sends a thrilling pulse through me. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God.. .The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only art adequately translates it into reality. But when we assuage our need for faith with an ideology we court disaster. View quote
Gerhard Richter
Although I enter not, Yet round about the spot Ofttimes I hover And near the sacred gate With longing eyes I wait, Expectant of her. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere. View quote
Ben Kingsley