Quotes about Longing
Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed.
— Seth Godin
My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?
— Shirley Chisholm
Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)
— Henri Nouwen
When you read that our heavenly home is similar to a bride, tell me, doesn't it make you want to go home.
— Max Lucado
Maybe that's why her flat in New York City had never felt like home. Because deep down, Vivien longed to be somewhere where people knew her. Somewhere she belonged.
— Susan May Warren
The void can only be filled with love.
— Marty Rubin
I'm extra-good at wanting things. I want things until I feel sort of sick about them. I want enough for two normal people, at least.
— Rainbow Rowell
My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.
— Dolly Parton
I closed my eyes to hug him tighter and give him that elusive feeling of unconditional love and complete safety. The feeling we seek but, in this life and in this world, perhaps never quite find.
— Katherine Reay
He's exasperated. "I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!
— Stephanie Perkins
Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.
— Toni Morrison
O Lord, Sula," she cried, "girl, girl, girlgirlgirl." It was a fine cry—loud and long—but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
— Toni Morrison