Quotes about longing
longing decrepit reverence
I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic. Rufus Wainwright
longing trouble yearning
Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn. Marcus Tullius Cicero
longing provoking
The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes. David Mitchell
longing ifs
If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life. Anna Freud
longing stage
I don't have a vast longing for the stage. Anthony Hopkins
longing buried
A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life. Stanley Kunitz
longing
What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us. John Steinbeck
longing great-american worthy
It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent. Maureen Corrigan
longing
She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there? Lorrie Moore
longing appetite passion-and-purity
Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living. Jim Elliot
longing hysterical reason
An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations. Fyodor Dostoevsky
longing intense
The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it. Gail Godwin
longing within-reach knows
Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach? Greta Garbo
longing
We are the total of our longings. Guy Gavriel Kay
longing no-hope
We have no hope and yet we live in longing. Dante Alighieri