Longing Quotes - Page 9

F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent.

Bound in primal longings, we pine to be understood by ourselves.

Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.

Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.

She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there?

What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.

What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.

How do you stop longing for what you absolutely know you can't get? Which really means: How do you absolutely know you can't-and won't-get it, not ever? How do you pinch out that wisp of feeble, ruthless hope?

She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.

If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong.

And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

One of the greatest human longings is to be close to someone.

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.

Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.

Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.

I have a desperate longing to have a desperate longing

God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

How wonderful," he purred. "I've been longing to speak to you for days, Princess Cecelia." "And I've been wanting to kick you in the shin for days.

Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to their most shameful longings and knowledge?

The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.

Whenever I hear somebody go, "I feel so religious right now!" I'm like, "Well, you're tying yourself up in knots, are you?" There's no spiritual connotation to that word whatsoever. And while it binds you to a rope, because it's about belonging, it alienates you to others. That can't be part of God's plan, if there is a God.