Longing Quotes - Page 2

• What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us.

  John Steinbeck

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

  John Masefield

  Long Distance Relationship, Soul, Miles

  John Masefield, Audrey Napier-Smith, William Buchan (1983). “Letters to Reyna”, London : Buchan & Enright

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• I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.

  Salvador Plascencia

  Love, Sad, Thinking Of You

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• I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

  Helen Keller

  Death, Believe, Soul

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.157, Matthew Gordon

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• 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?

  Leigh Newman

  Mean, Wisps, Ruthless

  Leigh Newman (2013). “Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home”, p.170, Dial Press

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• Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

  Milan Kundera

  Love Is, Half, Unbearable

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Love, Fear, Heart

  "Fictional character: Eva Perón". "Evita", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• My love is as a fever, longing still.

  William Shakespeare

  Love Is, Fever, Stills

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 147.

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• There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.

  Jan Myrdal

  Happiness, Success, Hope

  Jan Myrdal (1980). “The Silk Road: A Journey from the High Pamirs and Ili Through Sinkiang and Kansu”, Orion

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• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  John Bunyan

  Love, Christian, Peace

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• O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16)

  William Ernest Henley

  Summer, Night, Men

  William Ernest Henley, “Between The Dusk Of A Summer Night”

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• Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.

  Chenjerai Hove

  Creativity, Space, Desire

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• Happiness is a myth we seek,
  If manifested surely irks;
  Like river speeding to the plain,
  On its arrival slows and murks.
  For man is happy only in
  His aspiration to the heights;
  When he attains his goal, he cools
  And longs for other distant flights.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Clouds, Spirit, Incessant

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• The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them,and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols,breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Memories, Flower

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• Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Philosophical, Mind

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• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

  Coco Chanel

  Motivational, Mother, Strong Women

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• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Philosophy, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.240, Courier Corporation

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• Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.

  Leigh Bardugo

  Stars, Prayer, Loneliness

  Leigh Bardugo (2014). “Ruin and Rising”, p.234, Macmillan

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• All language is a longing for home.

  Rumi

  Home, Language, Longing For Home

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• I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.

  Ayn Rand

  Pride, Want, Hopeless

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.357, Penguin

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• I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

  Richard Wagner

  Affection, Abyss, Inferiors

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• It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love and for comfort and it lives on the lips of the child crying for his mother. It is the song of the lover in need of her loved one, the raving of the lunatic supplicant petitioning his God...The love song is the sound of our endeavors to become God-like, to rise up and above the earthbound and the mediocre.

  Nick Cave

  Mother, Song, Children

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• Happiness is the longing for repetition.

  Milan Kundera

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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