43 Quotes About Longing for Someone

There are many ways to experience love in your life. These quotes about longing for someone will offer you the right encouragement to find the right person to love.

“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.”

“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.”

“Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.”

“Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.”

“Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home.”

“Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.”

“Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that’s why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can’t share.”

“Happiness is the longing for repetition.”

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

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

“I don’t want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry – directors and producers – are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.”

“I have a longing for fiction, to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.”

“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.”

“I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.”

“I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.”

“I think, as you’re growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you’re an adult. You’re ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don’t feel things more as we get older.”

“I’d definitely love to do more acting. My heart cries out for it; it’s such a deep longing.”

“If some longing goes unmet, don’t be astonished. We call that Life.”

“I’m moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.”

“Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?”

“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.”

“I’ve always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something’s missing.”

“Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That’s human nature.”

“Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.”

“My longing for truth was a single prayer.”

“People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.”

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

“Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.”

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

“The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.”

“The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But
certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.”

“The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.”

“The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.”

“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.”

“To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.”

“Today we’re just growing and consuming, and I think maybe there’s a sadness in that. People are longing for a time when there was a black and white and good and bad.”

“What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being?”

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

“Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth.”

“Within ourselves, there are voices that provide us with all the answers that we need to heal our deepest wounds, to transcend our limitations, to overcome our obstacles or challenges, and to see where our soul is longing to go.”

“Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.”

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.”

“You’re always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.”

Sensitivity is a vital characteristic in individuals that display moments of empathy and thought. Longing for someone of a sensitive nature and bring your life balance and focus.