Longing Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (L) Quotes

You can`t do every movie - although I do a lot of them - and the thing I`m longing to do is ... it`s not that I think I`m funny ... but I long to do a situation comedy.

- Lance Henriksen

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

- Laura Dern

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.

- Maria Shriver

It is a political thriller. It`s very action packed and it`s very exciting, but at the same time it`s a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They`re not separate, they`re completely dependent on one another.

- Rachel Weisz

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

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

I`m doing lots of interviews and stuff. I`m longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair and just going to the studio.

- Stevie Nicks

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.

- Ben Kingsley

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

- Greta Garbo

America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

- Arianna Huffington

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one`s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Ever wanting. Ever longing. Never-ending blue, ... So I`ll take the inspiration with the gloom because usually where there`s a tear, there`s a tune.

- Charlie Sexton

When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I`ve met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.

- Wayne Coyne

I`m very pleased that his joining my office will permit me to spend more direct time with the vice presidents and to do something I`ve been longing to do for a year or so - to get more direct contact with the students,

- John Peters

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

- Tony Snow

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

- Ismail Merchant

(He had) an accent that carried the longing cadence of the exile.

- Peter Evans

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

- Kenneth Grahame

The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of the object.

- Alexander Rodchenko

I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than our longing for righteousness.

- Abdel Shafi

People of this world are deluded. They`re always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

- Alaida Lares

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

- Alan Adler

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.

- Alan Rodger

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

- Albert Feng

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

- Allayne Barrilleaux

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

- Alvina Tan

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.

- Andrew Metrick

We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been '” a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when

- Ann Kuehling

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

- Oscar Wilde

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

- Thomas Jefferson

What all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, and your choice of Scotch in bars--you would meet a beautiful, powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever.

- Erica Jong

Deep in my heart I`m concealing things that I`m longing to say. Scared to confess what I`m feeling - frightened you`ll slip away.

- Madonna

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one`s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi