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Quotes About Longing

Though I lost you years ago, I dreamed you were here. That dream gave me the inspirational feeling that I could make it one more day.
~ Jon Jones
The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
~ Khalil Gibran
You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.
~ Christopher Pike, Phantom
You can't go home again
~ Thomas Wolfe
The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering expresses the great natural potential of mind.
~ Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.
~ Charlotte Bronte
The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light.
~ Frederick Lenz
There is only one romance the Soul's.
~ William Butler Yeats
God send everyone their heart's desire!
~ William Shakespeare
When I came out of anesthesia, I wanted two things: my husband and my dog. They wouldn't let the dog in the recovery room.
~ Sandy Nathan, Numenon
Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold.--Johnny quoting Robert Frost
~ S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
Lovers moon and wishing stars are too busy for the likes of us.
~ Jake. H. Khiangte
No, that I love you. I love you, Isabel Marie Nichols, and I have since the first day I watched your golden blonde hair dance in the sunlight. That day, you became mine.
~ A.M. Willard, Fading Memories
She wanted to reach up to the night and dig her fingers into it, beg it to stay just a little bit longer.
~ Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost
...hero or not, he wanted to hold her forever and not let go.
~ Heidi Glick, Dog Tags
If you want something, but you can't have it for now. Hold it, wait for the time and somehow, someday you'll get a chance that if you really want it you could have it.
~ Kenneth
Stop the world, I wanna get on!
~ Leopold "Leo" Bloom
Be Free!, That I want to Be !
~ Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.
~ Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known
~ Carson McCullers
Deep down inside what i want is a little of me.
~ Lucas Soares Adriano
The eye of a man is never satisfied with seeing.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
'Twill make old women young and fresh, Create new motions of the flesh. And cause them long for you know what, If they but taste of chocolate.
~ James Wadworth