Quotes about Longing
To love and be loved is the very thing our souls scream for from birth and every moment after, the urge to need and be needed as natural as breathing, as life-giving as breath.
— Lisa Wingate
The sweetness of his longing dives to a tender, bruised place in me.
— Lisa Wingate
Our love for people doesn't end when they pass away. More often our feelings deepen as we realize how much they mean to us and how dearly we miss them.
— Liz Curtis Higgs
I will not live without love.
— Vincent Van Gogh
One morning, after many dark nights of despair, an irrepressible longing to live will announce to us the fact that all is finished and that suffering has no more meaning than happiness.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, "I want a Dad." But you won't abide in anyone.
— Judah Smith
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.
— CS Lewis
I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.
— Graham Greene
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
the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.
— Philip Yancey
I'm convinced that human beings instinctively seek two things. We long for meaning, a sense that our life somehow matters to the world around us. And we long for community, a sense of being loved.
— Philip Yancey