A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
Henry Ward Beecher

A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.
William A. Henry III

America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
Arianna Huffington

And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore.
Sela Ward

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.
David Brainerd

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

Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?
Arundhati Roy

Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
Eduard Shevardnadze

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
Karl Rahner

'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally.
Jon Crosby

Happiness is the longing for repetition.
Milan Kundera

Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.
William Ames

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
Richard Wagner

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
Laura Dern

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.
Julia Margaret Cameron

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
Alfred de Vigny

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.
Shmuel Y. Agnon

I'm doing lots of interviews and stuff. I'm longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair and just going to the studio.
Stevie Nicks

I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.
Jon Crosby

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
Anna Freud