Top Longing Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Longing quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Maureen Corrigan
It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.
- Maureen Corrigan
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Image of Jacob Grimm
He who is too well off is always longing for something new.
- Jacob Grimm
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Image of Meindert DeJong
The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you.
- Meindert DeJong
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Image of Li-Young Lee
Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?
- Li-Young Lee
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Image of Anna Kamienska
Even a painful longing is some form of presence.
- Anna Kamienska
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Image of Sarah Moon
How can one live without hope and longing?
- Sarah Moon
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Image of Anders Petersen
It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all.
- Anders Petersen
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Image of Kathleen R Fischer
One of the greatest human longings is to be close to someone.
- Kathleen R Fischer
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Image of Guy Gavriel Kay
We are the total of our longings.
- Guy Gavriel Kay
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Image of Lorrie Moore
She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there?
- Lorrie Moore
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Image of Rufus Wainwright
I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.
- Rufus Wainwright
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Image of Robert Bly
What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
- Robert Bly
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Image of Tara Brach
Our greatest longing is to be intimate.
- Tara Brach
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Image of Joss Whedon
I have a desperate longing to have a desperate longing
- Joss Whedon
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Image of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
You are all that you are longing for.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Image of Boyd K. Packer
In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
- Boyd K. Packer
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Image of Kate Morton
Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.
- Kate Morton
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Image of Mary Renault
Longing performs all things
- Mary Renault
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Image of David Mitchell
The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.
- David Mitchell
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Image of John Steinbeck
What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us.
- John Steinbeck
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Image of Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Image of Dante Alighieri
We have no hope and yet we live in longing.
- Dante Alighieri
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Image of Emily Dickinson
Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground
- Emily Dickinson
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Image of Don DeLillo
Longing on a large scale makes history.
- Don DeLillo
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Image of Kate DiCamillo
Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
- Kate DiCamillo
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Image of Fyodor Dostoevsky
An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Image of Jim Elliot
Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.
- Jim Elliot
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Image of Masiela Lusha
Bound in primal longings, we pine to be understood by ourselves.
- Masiela Lusha
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Image of Stanley Kunitz
A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.
- Stanley Kunitz
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