Top Longing Quotes
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
Richard Wagner
People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.
Polly Toynbee
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
Alfred de Vigny
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.
Julia Margaret Cameron
Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
Eduard Shevardnadze
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Mohandas Gandhi 
Julia Margaret Cameron 
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John le Carre 
Henry Ward Beecher All Longing Quotes
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
Richard Wagner 
66% of people like this quote
People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.
Polly Toynbee
60% of people like this quote
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
Alfred de Vigny
58% of people like this quote
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.
Julia Margaret Cameron
57% of people like this quote
Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
Eduard Shevardnadze
57% of people like this quote
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
55% of people like this quote
The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
Gail Godwin
55% of people like this quote
There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.
Jan Myrdal
55% of people like this quote
Popular Longing Authors
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Eduard ShevardnadzeWilliam AmesJon CrosbyLaura DernTony SnowWayne CoyneTreat WilliamsAnna FreudMalcolm MuggeridgeAlva MyrdalJosiah RoyceSela WardDavid BrainerdStevie NicksPolly Toynbee
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