Top 68 Quotes About Longing For Someone

#1. Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

Anne Lamott

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#2. And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri.

Peter Matthiessen

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#3. Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

Carson McCullers

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#4. In his greediness, he counts all that he has clutched as nothing in comparison with what is beyond his grasp, and loses all pleasure in his actual possessions by longing after what he has not, yet covets.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

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#5. It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

George Eliot

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#6. Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.

William Ames

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#7. She knows, every part of her knows, that she wants to kiss him. That he wants to kiss her. All of her skin prickles with longing. Her insides fizz. (The Lady and the Fox)

Kelly Link

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#8. But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.

Allison Winn Scotch

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#9. In the midst of fear Lyra knelt by Lanre's body and breathed his name. Her voice was a beckoning. Her voice was love and longing. Her voice called him to live again. But Lanre lay cold and dead.

Patrick Rothfuss

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#10. I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.

Katy Lederer

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#11. She loved him in a deep and singular way, almost as though God had crafted one heart in heaven, then split it between Holden's body and hers, fating her to a never-ending longing to be with him, or a fractional life without him. She

Katy Regnery

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#12. I'm so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well.

Kimbra

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#13. Sex was the main component of her thoughts now. But love - and her desperate longing for it - had vanished from her heart like a migraine after a painkiller.

Augustine Sam

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#14. When we lay together, she showed me her soul, and I showed her mine, and they were the same. As you can imagine, mine was battered and bruised, tarnished like ancient metal. She scrubbed it clean. I cannot deny my own soul any more than I can deny she held it in her hands for a time.

Carol Oates

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#15. She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there?

Lorrie Moore

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#16. When the universe was young, it took a breath, then sighed with a longing so deep, so ancient, that it stole God's attention for a moment. The sigh brushed God's cheek and He recognized it as the breath of love. In that moment God wished for another. The yearning had begun.

Kate Belle

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

George MacDonald

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#18. As long as you thought me handsome, you could have come back, I know you would have come back.

Gaston Leroux

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#19. Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#20. His cold, unmoving face startled me, but the warmth from his hands left me curious and longing for more of his touch.

Magan Vernon

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#21. Till then I wasn't alive, I longed for you like the love sick moon pulls the tide

Corinne Bailey Rae

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#22. I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world
an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

Craig Thompson

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#23. A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.

Stanley Kunitz

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#24. Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.

Diogenes

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#25. All that pent up longing," he says, "all that desire to flail and flap around. Them wings have needs.

Justin Torres

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#26. When I am looking for you, then in silence, your every atom is longing for me.

Debasish Mridha

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#27. All they did was stir up desire, and longing, and hopelessness, a trio of miserable caged wildcats that had been installed in me without my permission, or at least without my understanding how long they would live and how vicious they would be.

Alice Munro

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#28. I think on this issue more than any other we're going to see sort of a bipartisan longing to get something done, and hopefully you're not going to find the fisticuffs that you would find on lots of other issues. I think you'll be able to glean a sense of progress without us revealing the specifics.

Charles Schumer

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#29. My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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#30. Imagine willpower as a closed fist and longing as an open hand. Try closing your fist. How long do you think you can hold that pose? A closed fist requires a lot of attention and energy, and so does willpower. Longing is effortless; it's just there, like an open hand.

Gudjon Bergmann

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#31. I didn't have that kind of friendship, the forever kind of friendship that will last your whole life through, no matter what.

Jenny Han

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#32. And his brow was lofty with thought, and his eye wild with care; and, in the few furrows upon his cheek I read the fables of sorrow, and weariness, and disgust with mankind, and a longing after solitude.

Edgar Allan Poe

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#33. What, and end up like you? Wistfully recalling a lover from long ago? Please.

Elizabeth Carlton

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#34. Memory is a great deceiver, grief and longing cloud the past, and recollections, even vivid ones, fade.

Daniel Alarcon

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#35. all the things we think are important really aren't, and he had no time to think about the things that really are. His whole life was going by and he had never contemplated the big, simple truths: loneliness and longing, desire and death.

Amos Oz

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#36. Duane: We are not enemies! We are Aldishmen! Aumut vaosa -- six years I've longed for a Tainish word from a friendly tongue!
Quigley: Keep longing.

Ashley Cope

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#37. And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to these would be to open his heart to his loneliness and longing and that was beyond bearing.

Martine Leavitt

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#38. Helena had been standing by her window looking out to sea, breathing in the fresh air and admiring the picturesque scene of a small ship sailing into the harbor.
She had not been able to think of anything other than Mikolas for days.
From LONGING the 3rd chapter of TRUE LOVE

Destin Bays

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#39. Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#40. The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

Orison Swett Marden

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#41. I slept in the grip of that love, comforted, thinking I should forget my longing within it, knowing that all was somehow well...In the morning when I stirred, I knew...I knew I lay here in my own flesh, but not alone.

Tosca Lee

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#42. A man in cahoots with a woman's sexual instinct was the devil himself, for he had the united power over her - himself and her own longing - greater than a mere man

Judith Ivory

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#43. I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book.

Elvis Costello

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#44. Longing for our idealized images of life separates us from our true selves and from our true callings.

Stephen Cope

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#45. Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Bryant H. McGill

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#46. 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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#47. We have inherited from our forefathers the keen
longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge.

Erwin Schrodinger

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#48. Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#49. Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?
Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

William Shakespeare

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#50. How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

Hermann Hesse

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#51. You are here to remind me of someone I long for, and what is it you long for yourself? We must have been together in an earlier life, you and I.

Murasaki Shikibu

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#52. My longing for someone to talk to made Himillsy the lightning bug in my honey jar. I punched holes in the lid so she could breathe.

Chip Kidd

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#53. So I could see that Harlow was fundamentally untrustworthy. Simultaneously, she seemed like someone with whom I could be my true self. I had no intention of doing so and, with and equal and counterbalancing intensity, a great longing for it.

Karen Joy Fowler

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#54. Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

Laura Lippman

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#55. Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

Ayn Rand

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#56. i smile. things taken for granted have a way of catching you offguard when you least expect it, and then you're taken by what the portuguese calls saudade, a sense of longing for something, someone not there anymore.

Yeow Kai Chai

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#57. You just know something is amiss, when you look at someone and long for something that is not yours or you cannot have. It's an absence
a loss of a heartbeat.

Nadege Richards

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#58. Love is your addiction to an eternal longing for someone ... A thirst which one cannot relinquish

Seema Gupta

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#59. They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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#60. But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question back on the audience, and here's the definition we all came up with: hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

Derrick Jensen

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#61. What a blessing to love someone so much that you long for them at the core of your being. At the same time, when you are separated from that person, that longing is a torture I would not wish on anyone.

Steve Maraboli

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#62. The depth of longing I felt for him didn't seem possible for someone my age.

Rachel Higginson

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#63. You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you never have to long for a child as I did, but oh, what a splendid thing it has been that you came finally, and what a blessing to enjoy you now for almost seven years.

Marilynne Robinson

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#64. How was it possible to miss someone as much as I missed my mother? I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater.

Donna Tartt

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#65. Homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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#66. I've read countless literary works that detail the longing and ache that characters have for someone they love, and over time, I have developed a strong belief that it's just dramatic bullshit meant to entice readers.

Jessica Park

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#67. ... longing for someone I couldn't have.

Penelope Ward

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#68. I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone.

Madonna Ciccone

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