Quotes about Longing
Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.
— Samuel Beckett
You know how it feels when you're in love with somebody and you long to be with that person? God wants us to feel that way about Him.
— Stormie Omartian
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.
— Graham Greene
Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection?
— Samuel Beckett
We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
— Philip Yancey
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.
— Khalil Gibran
I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.
— St. Augustine
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
— John Adams
Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.
— Oscar Wilde
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
— Vernon Howard
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
— George Eliot
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
— Albert Camus