Quotes About Longing

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step along the way will be determined by it.

In Heaven, to look into God's eyes will be to see what we've always longed to see: the person who made us for His own good pleasure. Seeing God will be like seeing everything else for the first time.

This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.

There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself?

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.

Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.

Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.

Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.

Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.

When you can live forever what do you live for?

Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?

To have and to want more that is life.

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Sometimes it seems to me that that's all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have.

It's like my whole life never happened, When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought. I know this dream, it might be crazy, But it's the only one I've got.

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.