Top 100 Heart Longing Quotes

#1. So I step into the future, as bravely as I'm able, with my heart longing for a time I'll never see again.

Ekaterina Gordeeva

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#2. Let still woman take
An elder than herself: so wears she to him,
So sways she level in her husband's heart,
For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
More longing, wavering, sooner to be lost and warn,
Than women's are.

William Shakespeare

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#3. The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.

Mark Twain

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#4. Hunger of the heart is much stronger than hunger for food.

Amanda Comer

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#5. You're gone and you left me. My heart has dissipated. The only thing I can feel is the blood rushing through my veins and the strings that hold my fragile heart together.

Karen Quan

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#6. I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.

Rumi

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#7. I experienced the happiest moment of my life when you took me in your arms as your wife and pressed me to your heart; when I even think of that moment my heart beats madly and I have a terrible longing for you, and I think I would hug you to death if I had you here now.

Hannah Pakula

Heart Longing Quotes #1329039
#8. The great longing of an unquiet heart is to possess constantly and consciously the loved one, or, failing that, to be able to plunge the loved one, when a time of absence intervenes, into a dreamless sleep timed to last unbroken until the day they meet again.

Albert Camus

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#9. In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing.

Heinrich Heine

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#10. I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man's chest.

Kristen Hope Mazzola

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#11. The Heart is like a candle,
longing to be lit!

Rumi

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#12. The longing of every heart is to be loved.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Heart Longing Quotes #1221665
#13. But words are vain; reject them all
They utter but a feeble part:
Hear thou the depths from which they call,
The voiceless longing of my heart.

George MacDonald

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#14. There is a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter longing to lie down and die.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Heart Longing Quotes #1198742
#15. Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth.

Sigrid Undset

Heart Longing Quotes #1195829
#16. Within this raindrop there must be a heart- a heart that weeps the pain of longing. I have her in my palm where the silvery rays of the morn reflect the beauty of the whole cosmos and I kiss her with all my yearning!

Preeth Nambiar

Heart Longing Quotes #1193461
#17. Many are hurting for love, while many are suffering from a love that hurts.

Anthony Liccione

Heart Longing Quotes #1193250
#18. They're talking as if nothing's happened, Soledad said to herself, and the jealousy ran from her ears into her heart, where it settled into her aorta and reshaped itself as longing and desire, the kind of want that makes one capable of poor but magnanimous decisions.

Derek Palacio

Heart Longing Quotes #1182453
#19. The trouble with magic was that is was messy and dangerous and filled with longing. There were too many moments that made your heart stop and ache and start again.

Karen Foxlee

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#20. Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their souls are riven and they cry out to Him and there is no fear but only wildness of heart that springs from such longing ...

Cormac McCarthy

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#21. Isn't it better that we send them off once and for all beneath the glow of carnival lights, with the taste of treats on our tongues, rather than invite the acrid tang of doubt, and undue longing, and the heart-stab of a freshly sundered bond?

Chang-rae Lee

Heart Longing Quotes #1080234
#22. To deny oneself is to act no more from the standing ground of self.... No longing after the praise of men influence a single throb of the heart.
Right deeds, and not the judgment thereupon; true words, and not what reception they may have, shall be our concern.

George MacDonald

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#23. What is your ambition in life today? Is it to get rich? Is it to make a name for yourself? Is it even to do some wonderful thing for God? Listen to me, beloved. The highest desire that can possess any human heart is a longing to see God.

J. Vernon McGee

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#24. A longing for the extraordinary had grabbed ahold of her and was burning her up inside, so hot and fierce that her heart had gone stone cold toward everything and everybody standing in her way. That was Mama. Fire and ice.

D. Anne Love

Heart Longing Quotes #1022754
#25. I hated longing. I hated it almost as much as I hated pining. It sapped the mind of good judgment, filled the heart with achiness, and distracted the vagina from other potential conquests.

Penny Reid

Heart Longing Quotes #1020335
#26. Prayer simply means a longing of the heart, it is the wish felt, - it may be expressed, or not expressed. It may take the form of human language or it may never be uttered at all; still it is a prayer, if God only hears it in the secret recess of the heart.

Keshub Chandra Sen

Heart Longing Quotes #995038
#27. My mind is an instrument of peace
I am the peace
My heart sing the song of peace
My mind dances with peace
I laugh with peace
My soul is longing for peace
My spirit is the source of peace.

Debasish Mridha

Heart Longing Quotes #1615145
#28. She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream ...

Joseph Conrad

Heart Longing Quotes #1861462
#29. What is the gospel according to Jesus? Simply this: that the love we all long for in our innermost heart is already present, beyond longing.

Stephen Mitchell

Heart Longing Quotes #1826014
#30. In his heart, some tiny piece of what hadn't happened would lodge.

Simon Van Booy

Heart Longing Quotes #1782391
#31. It's amazing what the sound of voice you've been longing to hear can do to your heart

Colleen Hoover

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#32. Being without my dear one made my heart ache like it had been pierced with thousands of daggers that had been placed in ice and covered in salt.

Jillian Kleine Der Lowe

Heart Longing Quotes #1732803
#33. We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

George Bernard Shaw

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#34. Dimitri always left my heart full of pain and longing, but I still wanted Adrian in my life.

Richelle Mead

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#35. We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

Michael Ondaatje

Heart Longing Quotes #1674487
#36. Follow your heart. Then root its longing with the facts.

Gina Greenlee

Heart Longing Quotes #1669850
#37. 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

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#38. God's reality is displayed to us in His Word or His world and we do not then feel in our heart any grief or longing or hope or fear or awe or joy or gratitude or confidence, then we may dutifully sing and pray and recite and gesture as much as we like, but it will not be real worship.

John Piper

Heart Longing Quotes #1642060
#39. You came and I was longing for you.
You cooled a heart that burned with desire.

Sappho

Heart Longing Quotes #1615567
#40. He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.

Lisa See

Heart Longing Quotes #989803
#41. One clings desperately to some vain hope, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and then it breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes.

Rabindranath Tagore

Heart Longing Quotes #1565274
#42. Eraritjaritjaka albutjika
Nkinjaba iturala albutjika ...
His heart is filled with longing to turn for home
In the heat of the sun to return home ...
'Ulamba chant, Aboriginal Central Australia

Stuart Rintoul

Heart Longing Quotes #1555207
#43. My heart literally aches, that shit is not made up; it hurts for an unexpected, brief time warp of suddenly wanting and longing and believing, but then not having.

Rachel Cohn

Heart Longing Quotes #1550503
#44. I was surfing the Internet for a different sort of education. I surfed for photos of circus freaks and synonyms for the word intercourse and for answers to why staring at the stars in the evening tore my heart with longing.

Maggie Stiefvater

Heart Longing Quotes #1545304
#45. To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!

Virginia Woolf

Heart Longing Quotes #1537738
#46. There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

Henry Ward Beecher

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#47. Can this be love that twists and tears the heart so? Does love give nothing but the power to hurt each other? Is this what makes the simplest touch blend longing and terror in equal measure? Whatever this is, it feels like a mortal wound.

Juliet Marillier

Heart Longing Quotes #1475994
#48. I reside in an abode where your thoughts imagine me... You reside in my heart where the auricles camouflage my longing...

Avijeet Das

Heart Longing Quotes #1458878
#49. If your heart is broken, do you have a phantom heart?

Damon Suede

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#50. The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

Josiah Royce

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#51. No matter how great the love, the pain, the sadness, the power of a heart, no one can recreate the sea. Nowhere else.

Ondjaki

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#52. I synonymously felt my heart beat rapaciously, the heart which was once void of anything alive and well. Now the heart was rasping and knocking on my ribcage as if it was demanding to come out, take its root and grow.

Diyar Harraz

Heart Longing Quotes #313399
#53. If the entire divinity and domain of God sits in the heart of a person, and his longing becomes timeless, then man can develop the capacity to love.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

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#54. Oh, if only I could hurt with such misery once again, to feel the powers of love here inside my heart, the joys of heaven and the pains of hell!

Victor Villasenor

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#55. There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

Henry Ward Beecher

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#56. The knowledge of your destiny is available to you, well before
it actually happens, as a message streaming continuously from
your heart to your brain, written in the language of longing.

Martha Beck

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#57. I have a moment where I finally realize that the aching heart, the longing, the grief, the insanity ... I finally get it after all these month. That all those things combined are what letting go feels like.

Lauren Hammond

Heart Longing Quotes #490005
#58. At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.

Frank Pittman

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#59. Jesus is the answer to the longing of every human heart. The love of his heart is the only love capable of filling our human longing - because it is human, yet infinite, and because it is also divine. Not only does each individual need and desire this love, but the world, taken as a whole, needs it.

James Kubicki

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#60. But she had dreamed of being his for too long. He had quite ruined her for a marriage of convenience. She wanted everything from him: his mind, his body, his name and, most of all, his heart.

Sarah MacLean

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#61. Deep down under where his heart resided, strangled up in thorny vines of guilt, anger, fear and longing, there lay something deeper in him, something that he couldn't see but she could.

Carol Oates

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#62. Come, thou long expected Jesus, born to set thy people free; from our fears and sins release us; let us find our rest in thee. Israel's strength and consolation, hope of all the earth thou art, dear desire of every nation, joy of every longing heart.

Charles Wesley

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#63. We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.

Robin Hobb

Heart Longing Quotes #323296
#64. The older I get, the more I feel like an exile, that I don't belong here. And I don't. I was made for heaven, and my heart is longing for it.

John Corapi

Heart Longing Quotes #315264
#65. Someone who touches your heart, all be it a mere fleeting moment, means no less than those who stay a lifetime. The longing is no less, and your life will never be the same after their gentle caress burns a swathe through your soul as there it will remain until the end of time...

Virginia Alison

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#66. Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is not the loss of family or place or money, it is the loss of innocence. There is forever a hollow place in our hearts once we realize that darkness rings the campfire.

Carolyn Hart

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#67. At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

Simone Weil

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#68. If thy meditation tends to fill thy note-book with notions, and good sayings, concerning God, and not thy heart with longing after him, and delight in him, for aught I know thy book is as much a Christian as thou (553).

Richard Baxter

Heart Longing Quotes #226540
#69. It was as if her heart had some instinctual longing for misery and pain.

Julie Plec

Heart Longing Quotes #218985
#70. All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow,
All the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing,
All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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#71. It is necessary to pray to Him, with a longing Heart.

Ramakrishna

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#72. Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Heart Longing Quotes #104538
#73. The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.

John Piper

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#74. Every rose is longing for joy and love; every rose know the language of the heart.

Debasish Mridha

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#75. What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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#76. Twilight-kind, oppressing the heart as with a condensed atmosphere of dreamy undefined love and longing.

George MacDonald

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#77. All that produces longing in the heart
deprives the heart of freedom.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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#78. Odette seemed a fascinating and desirable woman, the attraction which her body held for him had aroused a painful longing to secure the absolute mastery of even the tiniest particles of her heart.

Marcel Proust

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#79. The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.

Vera Nazarian

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#80. I loved him. I know you don't want to believe that, but I really, truly, giddy, heart-breaking, longing, achingly loved him.

Karin Slaughter

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#81. Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail.

Saint Augustine

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#82. you ruptured
the love lakes
of my longing
and scattered
the continents
of my heart.

K.Y. Robinson

Heart Longing Quotes #881888
#83. It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom.

Ted Dekker

Heart Longing Quotes #856550
#84. 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

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#85. None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.

Richard Chenevix Trench

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#86. and I had no home but the heart's hut,
the blistering walls of loneliness,
the world's blue skymiles of longing.

Dave Smith

Heart Longing Quotes #790523
#87. I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.

Albert Camus

Heart Longing Quotes #780284
#88. I know that touching you will be understanding my fingers for the first time.

Kels Adeline Sapp

Heart Longing Quotes #764445
#89. Then rang the war chime, the clang of steel on steel loud over Leavenheath, and there came into my heart again the longing to wipe out the memory of old defeats, and I gripped my axe and shield and waited for my turn to come.

Charles W. Whistler

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#90. His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain.

Maggie Stiefvater

Heart Longing Quotes #713611
#91. She brushed the tears from their faces and sang them a melancholy lullaby. Her obvious devotion to her daughters pulled at my heart strings, making my chest ache with longing for my own mother.

A.B. Shepherd

Heart Longing Quotes #672344
#92. My head didn't ache, but my heart did. The longing for Aspen's arms was so familiar, it was like it never left.

Kiera Cass

Heart Longing Quotes #663982
#93. Only an aching heart
Conceives a changeless work of art.

William Butler Yeats

Heart Longing Quotes #663694
#94. I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .

R.S. Thomas

Heart Longing Quotes #632210
#95. God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon it or fearful of leaving it (dying), as well as to stir in our hearts a longing and yearning and holy anticipation for what is yet to come.

Sam Storms

Heart Longing Quotes #604628
#96. Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

Heart Longing Quotes #591128
#97. The dream was in fact a lot like the Vancouver weather - a dismal sort of longing, a rainy dreamy sadness, a weight that shifted round the heart.

Alice Munro

Heart Longing Quotes #589289
#98. I don't know how you say good-bye to whom and what you love. I don't know a painless way to do it, don't know the words to capture a heart so full and a longing so intense.

Laura Wiess

Heart Longing Quotes #577665
#99. They asked him for help rebuilding the farm, but e only shook his head with a pang of longing in his heart.
I'm tracking your killers,he whispered to his uncle.-Eragon

Christopher Paolini

Heart Longing Quotes #563470
#100. Love is the longing for heart and soul.

Debasish Mridha

Heart Longing Quotes #555229

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