Longing Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old longing quotes, longing sayings, and longing proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living, I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. Oriah Dreamer
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. Orison Swett Marden
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing. Richard Wagner
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for. Saul Bellow
All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure. Theodore Roethke
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. Thomas Jefferson
Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened. Wilhelm Von Humboldt
My love is as a fever, longing still. William Shakespeare