Quotes about Longing
Often the trials we mourn are really gateways into the good things we long for.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.
— CS Lewis
Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago, And lovers' hours be full eternity.
— John Donne
What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is needing to be loved.
— John Lennon
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
— Mortimer Adler
Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really loved their homes.
— Mother Teresa
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.
— John Donne
We love even when our love is not requited.
— Mortimer Adler
I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
— St. Augustine
O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.
— Thomas Merton