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Quotes About Longing

I keep staring out at this window, hoping that I'll see you arrive.
~ Unknown
I wonder if you think of me half as much as I think about you.
~ Unknown
Miles and miles we're apart but thoughts of you lingers in my heart. I wonder if there's a single chance I could see you again, for deep in my soul I'm waiting in vain...
~ Unknown
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.
~ Vera Nazarian
We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good.
~ Unknown
If we will deny the longing of love, we will lose even the last address of the stranger inside us.
~ Sorin Cerin
There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing
~ Kahlil Gibran
Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.
~ Xun Zi
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
~ Ramakrishna
The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.
~ Sophie Kerr
People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.
~ Bodhidharma
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
~ Milan Kundera
We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
~ Carson McCullers
Nothing was the same ever since you left. Many have came and went but they remind me of the past. I was such a fool of letting you go, now I miss you.
~ Unknown
Sometimes you think you've gotten over a person, but when you see him smile you suddenly realize you're just pretending you're over him to ease the pain of knowing that he will never be yours.
~ Unknown
While you laughed all day, I'd cry all night. While you regretted nothing, I looked back at everything. While you forgot everything, I remembered everything. While you fixed other hearts, I looked at mine that was torn apart. While you spent your time enjoying your life, I spent every moment longing for you to be mine.
~ Unknown
Sometimes it is not only the bad memories that's making you sad, but also the best ones which you know will not happen for the second time.
~ Unknown
A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I don't know where you are, but I miss you. I don't know what you're doing, but I'm thinking of you.
~ Unknown
Although we are miles apart, the thought and touch of you lives within my heart. It is for that reason my dear you will always feel near, even though we are thousands of miles APART!
~ Unknown
Missing someone is one of the hardest thing in life specially when that someone is far from you ..
~ Unknown
When nights are long and friends are few, I sit alone and think of you. With a lonely heart and a silent tear, I long to hold you and have you near...
~ Unknown
The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.
~ John Masefield