Longing Quotes

It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.
Pierre Loti

Great, Forward, Live

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

Life, Home, Children

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
Edgar Lee Masters

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
Anselm Kiefer

Hope, Art, Keep

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.
Maurice Saatchi

Human, America, Desire

The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.
Olivia Williams

Brain, Her, Worry

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

Around, Again, Africa

The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.
William Christopher Handy

Money, Small, Eyes

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.
Bernadine Dohrn

Freedom, Trying, Balance

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

Father, Old, Song

It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to affirm the richness of us as human beings both as performers and audience members.
Meredith Monk

Human, Together, Beginning

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
Adam Johnson

Change, Character, True

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.
Ismail Merchant

Love, Sadness, Give

My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.
Gina Barreca

Body, Looks, Improve

Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you're actively miserable.
Lauren Groff

Life, Find, Sometimes

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
Gail Godwin

What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude.
Isabel Wilkerson

Love, Family, Great

We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being.
Ron Pope

Love, Faith, Hope

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.
Sophie Kerr

I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the love and money we lavish on pets, the uneasy longing for extraterrestrials to be meddling with us.
Annie Gottlieb

Love, Money, Great

There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.
Jan Myrdal

Beyond, Third, Traveling

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