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Longing Quotes

Quotes on longing, yearning, and devotion.

This collection of longing quotes explores yearning in several forms, from spiritual devotion and belief to a personal longing for fiction and stories to disappear into. A few lines connect longing to history, including a nation's long-held desire for self-determination.

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

Quotes by Xun Kuang

Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.

Quotes by William Ames

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

Thomas Jefferson

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

Quotes by Sophie Kerr

Distance Quotes

When the boys and girls would line up separately in kindergarten, I'd find myself longing to be in the other line.

Quotes by Sarah McBride

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

Quotes by Richard Wagner

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

Quotes by Orison Swett Marden

McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion.

Quotes by Morley Safer

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Quotes by Milan Kundera

Hope Quotes

Things have changed for the worse. That's why former eastern bloc countries are electing communists again. We are missing them and longing for the times we cursed before.

Quotes by Krzysztof Kieslowski

I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

Quotes by Karl Ove Knausgard

I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be emotionally gripping, I needed to be in there somehow.

Quotes by Jens Lekman

There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.

Quotes by Ingmar Bergman

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

Quotes by Edith Stein

Love Quotes

There's no shame in longing for peace.

Quotes by Benny Gantz

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.

Quotes by Ben Kingsley

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

Quotes by Anthony Hopkins

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Quotes by Anna Freud

The longing for Europe has been all but extinguished in the young.

Quotes by Allan Bloom

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this Longing quotes page about?
It gathers quotes that reflect on longing and yearning, whether for love, belief, escape into fiction, or a nation's self-determination.
Why do people search for longing quotes?
Readers use them to express feelings of missing someone, waiting for change, or a deep desire for something not yet within reach.
Do the quotes connect longing to faith or belief?
Yes, one quote discusses awaiting the end of the world with longing among believers, tying the feeling to religious devotion and sacrifice.
Is there a quote about longing for stories or fiction?
Yes, one quote describes a longing for fiction, a wish to believe in it fully and disappear into it, capturing longing as an escape.
Do any quotes connect longing to history or politics?
Yes, one quote references Vietnam's long history of longing for self-determination and resisting foreign invasion, framing longing on a national scale. Related feelings are explored further in Pain quotes.

If this theme resonates, quotes tagged Hope or Love explore similar feelings of wanting and waiting.