Longing Quotes - Page 21

• Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.

  Louise Erdrich

  Hate, Veils

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.38, Odyssey Editions

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• I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the small sea siren who sings to you, riding her bicycle of corals and conches. But above all I sing a common thought that joins us in the dark and golden hours. The light that blinds our eyes is not art. Rather it is love, friendship, crossed swords.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Art, Eye, Dark

  Federico García Lorca, “Ode To Salvador Dali”

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• He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.

  Norton Juster

  Sweet, Memories, Tears

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.124, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to love someone who loved me just as fiercely. I'd never known rejection. I'd never wanted someone who didn't want me. The longing didn't go away with rejection.

  Abbi Glines

  Rejection, Going Away, Care

  Abbi Glines (2012). “While it Lasts”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am in one city, I am dreaming of the other. I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.

  Suketu Mehta

  Dream, Country, Cities

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• The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful. All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret - almost magic.

  Enid Blyton

  Beautiful, Running, Lonely

  "The Secret Island (Secret Series, Book 1)". Book by Enid Blyton, 1938.

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• Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for.

  Jane Urquhart

  Mistake, Mind

  Jane Urquhart (2014). “Changing Heaven”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• My library is an archive of longings.

  Susan Sontag

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.572, Macmillan

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• Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealous readers.) But it was all too much - too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhaps too much ice cream.

  James Patterson

  Falling In Love, Ice Cream, Too Much

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• Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see the line and harmony of the body beneath, and dance for us. Dance us the sweetness of life. Give us again the sweetness and the beauty of the true dance, give us again the joy of seeing the simple unconscious pure body of a woman. Like a great call it has come, and women must hear it and answer it.

  Isadora Duncan

  Tired, Eye, Simple

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• I have loved you in every manner that my imagination could contrive. I have wanted you so deeply that my body sang with pain and pleasure. You have been my obsession, my passion, my philosophers' stone of fantasy. You are my desire, my longing, my spirit. I love you unconditionally. - Sabine Strohem

  Nick Bantock

  Pain, Love You, Passion

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• The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.

  Margaret Mitchell

  World, Too Much, Remember

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.999, Simon and Schuster

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• Some feelings are stronger than fear: love, longing, desire.

  Luanne Rice

  Feelings, Desire, Stronger

  Luanne Rice (2004). “Beach Girls”, p.20, Bantam

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• But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Strong, Desire, Trying

  Elizabeth Berg (2001). “Never Change”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.

  Robert Burns

  Heart, My Heart, Dare

  Robert Burns, Josiah Walker (1811). “Poems”, p.154

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• Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

  Martin Heidegger

  Agony

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• If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong.

  L. Frank Baum

  Thinking, Want, Natural

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)”, p.1395, Delphi Classics

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• I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Art, Reality, Love Is

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.415, Faber & Faber

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• For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of that gentle familiar attitude and all the attendant circumstances, he had a restless desire to renew her picture in his mind - a longing for the very atmosphere she breathed. He was in the Charybdis of passion, and must perforce circle and circle ever nearer round the fatal centre.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Pain, Attitude, Passion

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1151, Delphi Classics

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• And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he was thinking--how in his estimation, the more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe--Pasquale Tursi said, only, "Yes.

  Jess Walter

  Regret, Thinking, Dexterity

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• I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Giving Up, Two, Balance

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• Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.

  Philip Sington

  Heart, Desire, Duration

  Philip Sington (2012). “The Valley of Unknowing”, p.62, Random House

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• Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.

  Judith Butler

  Love Is, Feelings, Vision

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• Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature - if that word can be used in reference to man, who has ‘invented’ himself by saying ‘no’ to nature - consists in his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.

  Octavio Paz

  Men, Solitude, Saying No

  The Labyrinth of Solitude ch. 9 (1950) (translation by Lysander Kemp)

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• My "heart". Does that pitiful organ still represent anything? It lies motionless in my chest, pumping no blood, serving no purpose, and yet my feelings still seem to originate inside its cold walls. My muted sadness, my vague longing, my rare flickers of joy. They pool in the center of my chest and seep out of there, diluted and faint, but real.

  Isaac Marion

  Wall, Lying, Real

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