Quotes about Longing
If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a 'wandering to find home,'' why should we not look forward to the arrival?
— CS Lewis
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
— Cicero
In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated.
— Marty Rubin
A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.
— CS Lewis
It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
— CS Lewis
When the answer to all my dreams is as close as a touch away, why am I here holding back what I'm trying to say?
— Clay Aiken
He said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red stuff, because I'm exhausted."
— Genesis 25:30
It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
— Mark Twain
We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good.
— Tessa Afshar
Every night in my dream I see you i feel you, This love must go on.
— Celine Dion
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
— Robert Frost
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
— Oscar Wilde