Longing Quotes - page 4

But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine. (David Levithan)
Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealous readers.) But it was all too much-too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhaps too much ice cream... View quote
James Patterson
She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. View quote
Jean Rhys
People are better inside in your head. When you're longing for them, they're perfect. View quote
Donal Ryan
All human eyes have longing in them. View quote
Ernesto Cardenal
I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it. View quote
Karl Ove Knausgard
Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world. They're bored with their lives, and there's nothing they can do about it. They're eaten alive by longing, and they're dead before they die. View quote
Lev Grossman
Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you're actively miserable. View quote
Lauren Groff
People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking. View quote
Bodhidharma
I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other. View quote
Laura Dern
Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back. (Morrie Schwartz)
The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life. View quote
Pier Paolo Pasolini
I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the love and money we lavish on pets, the uneasy longing for extraterrestrials to be meddling with us. View quote
Annie Gottlieb
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself. View quote
Bryant H. McGill
I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple - like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now. View quote
Chris O'Donnell
Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him. View quote
David Brainerd
Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will? View quote
David W Augsburger
I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street. View quote
Daphne Gottlieb
I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way. View quote
Jack Dee
'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally. View quote
Jon Crosby
You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life. (Jon Crosby)
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. View quote
Julia Margaret Cameron
I'm so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well. View quote
Kimbra
I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God. View quote
Martha McSally
America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring. View quote
Maurice Saatchi