85 Longing Quotes for You to Enjoy

As I have got older, I have found myself making friends with the ease and swiftness that other people pick up fuzzballs on their jumpers. And I believe it is probably my lack of longing for 'The One' that makes me so popular. Julie Burchill

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A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking - without letting your neocortex play into the decision - you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing. Karen Salmansohn

You Decision Longing Sense Thinking Meet Someone Instant Feel Without Soulmate Familiarity Your Connection Whom Letting Play

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

Dark Longing Spring Air Earth Penetrating Spirit Above Divine House Him Around Discontent His Little Moving Lowly Even Below

I'd definitely love to do more acting. My heart cries out for it; it's such a deep longing. Kylie Minogue

Love Heart Longing Cries Definitely Out More Acting Deep

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

People Desperation Dark Light Longing Other Relationships Intimate About Struggling Like Children Stories Movies Each Things Raise

Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you're actively miserable. Lauren Groff

For whatever reason, I've always gravitated towards music that feels nostalgic or longing or beautifully tragic. Lauv

Music Longing Whatever Towards Feels Beautifully Always Tragic Nostalgic Reason

I had to babysit a lot when I was in high school, and I missed a lot of parties. I felt this longing, like, 'Oh no, I'm going to miss meeting the love of my life at that party!' I feel like that's very Mary Katherine Gallagher. Molly Shannon

Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.' Nancy Gibbs

Morning Walk Insist Picture Longing Down Presidency Way Strut Opened Voters Arms Said Always Reagan His Years His Way Up America Want Wanted Again Themselves Turning Even Among Eagerness

Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he left the U.S.S.R. They wring your soul. Neel Mukherjee

Soul Made Longing Think Films Extremely Wring He Powerful Left Hands Intense Nostalgia After Your Right

I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing. Parker Posey

Trend Longing Songwriting Like Intelligent Really Serious Honest

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

As a Jew, even if you were not born in Poland, the very name, Poland, gives rise to a shuddering in your body and a longing in your heart. This country was the breeding ground for the soul of the Jewish nation, and unfortunately, also grounds to the largest Jewish cemetery. Reuven Rivlin

You Soul Heart Country Longing Nation Born Rise Gives Poland Name Also Were Very Cemetery Unfortunately Breeding Body Your Your Body Ground Grounds Even Largest Jew Jewish

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

Abyss Longing Those Fond Am Inferior Them Full Who Beings

No one can actually define love, but you attempt to, and the closest you can get is longing. And that itself has a melancholy to it. You can say dread, or doom - it's that feeling we all feel when we fall in love with someone: we have this horrible, fearful feeling that maybe we will never have that person in our life. Robert Zemeckis

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Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal. S. Ansky

Work Myself People Longing Own Those Threw Directions Bearing Environment Another Am Normal Left Eternal Lucky Whose Raised

I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren't available. They just weren't being written. Sandra Bullock

Time Longing Every Every Time Saw Those Kinds Physically Lead Emotionally Written Envious Counterparts Felt Always Got Were Male Roles Just Being Movie Available Awe

In our youths, many of us suspected that being tied down to a partner and family might constrain us. But after 40, even that landscape starts to shift. Many singletons turn inward and start longing for the things so many of us longed to be free of in our 20s. Sandra Tsing Loh

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

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

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