Longing Quotes - Page 18

• longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Madness, Kind, Greedy

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.80, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.

  Helen Dunmore

  Powerful, Stories, Genes

  18 Copy quote

• Henry was learning that time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance, the kind that makes you ache and stop wondering. Longing so bad that it begins to hurt to care so much.

  Jamie Ford

  Missing Someone, Hurt, Real

  Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.222, Allison & Busby

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry upon 'the days that are no more' with ineffable longing.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  World, Association, Cry

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1263, Delphi Classics

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• He and his wife loved each other and brought each other daily pain. Everything else he was doing in his life, even his longing for Lalitha, amounted to little more than flight from circumstance. He and Patty couldn't live together and couldn't imagine living apart. Each time he thought they'd reached the unbearable breaking point, it turned out that there was still further they could go without breaking.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Pain, Point Break, Wife

  4 Copy quote

• She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

  Jean Rhys

  Would Be, Thirsty, Lost

  Jean Rhys (2001). “Wide Sargasso Sea”, Gardners Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These were things you never spoke of, things you never hoped for; things you could never admit to. Things you'd die for, and die of.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Childhood, Body, Faces

  Elizabeth Hand (2010). “Illyria”, p.34, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements.

  Derrick Bell

  Inspirational, Powerful, Names

  Derrick Bell (2010). “Ethical Ambition”, p.65, A&C Black

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could stare at the stars for hours, their infinite number and depth pulling me into a part of myself that I ignored during the day.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Stars, Numbers, Depth

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.37, Scholastic Inc.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.

  Warren G. Bennis

  People, Soul, Dreamer

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.149, John Wiley & Sons

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

  Anna Godbersen

  New York, Real, Home

  4 Copy quote

• Celia, wait,” Marco says, standing but not moving closer to her. “You are breaking my heart. You told me once that I reminded you of your father. That you never wanted to suffer the way your mother did for him, but you are doing exactly that to me. You keep leaving me. You leave me longing for you again and again when I would give anything for you to stay, and it is killing me.” “It has to kill one of us,” Celia says quietly.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Mother, Father, Moving

  7 Copy quote

• But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.

  David Levithan

  Plato, Ideas, Soul

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.83, Knopf Books for Young Readers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Lying, Heart, Son

  13 Copy quote

• He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and sleep and bare skin. He smelled familiar. Not the deja vu familiar of Guy or Mel. Familiar like...the ache in your chest of homesickness, of longing for harbor after weeks of rough seas or craving a fire's warmth after snow--or wanting back something you should never have given away.

  Josh Lanyon

  Sleep, Sea, Fire

  4 Copy quote

• History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing that was ever lost in Port William ever has been replaced. In another sense, nothing is ever lost, and we are compacted together forever, even by our failures, our regrets, and our longings.

  Wendell Berry

  Regret, Community, Forever

  5 Copy quote

• Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Real, Past, Secret

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.179, Faber & Faber

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.

  Elizabeth Hay

  Loss, Sea, Next

  6 Copy quote

• They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

  Tim O'Brien

  Memories, Grief, Emotional

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

  Sigmund Freud

  Self, Deprivation, Form

  Sigmund Freud (2008). “General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

  Bram Stoker

  I Hate You, Air, Sea

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.61, "F+W Media, Inc."

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had never thought about it, but summer was Dill by the fishpool smoking string, Dill's eyes alive with complicated plans to make Boo Radley emerge; summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking, the longings we sometimes felt each other feel. With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable..." - Scout Finch

  Harper Lee

  Summer, Eye, Kissing

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an example to his young charges. We are playing the most artistic and beautiful game ever devised. Of course I'll cunting well cheat. Now, give me my robe and put on my crown. I have immortal longings in me.

  Stephen Fry

  Beautiful, School, Games

  Stephen Fry (2010). “The Liar”, p.303, Random House

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?” (…) A sigh of longing. “To be honest, I wanted to be ruler of the entire world. Or the ruler’s trophy wife.

  Gena Showalter

  Wife, World, Want

  Gena Showalter (2011). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.310, HQN Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detached, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Determination, Wind, Two

  12 Copy quote