Longing Quotes - Page 5

Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?

Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.

Even a painful longing is some form of presence.

Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive.

All language is a longing for home.

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

Im 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.

Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

Try claiming God's blessings instead of merely longing for them.

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

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

Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground

Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.

Only longing can fill with more of itself.

All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure.

But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.

Our greatest longing is to be intimate.

I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.

A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.

Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.