Longing Quotes

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

Malcolm Muggeridge

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, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them.

George Eliot

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

Orison Swett Marden

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Bertrand Russell, Autobiography

I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Walt Whitman

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

Thomas Jefferson

I have Immortal longings in me.

William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 5 scene 2

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

T. S. Eliot, Quoted in the May, 24 edition of "The Montreal Gazette".