Top 50 Longing Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”

— C. S. Lewis

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Meaningful Quotes, Faith Quotes, Spirituality Quotes

2. “The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.”

— C. S. Lewis

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Short Deep Quotes

3. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.”

— Melody Truong

Also featured in: Aesthetic Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Travel Quotes, Quotes About the World

4. “I want it all and I want it now.”

— Freddie Mercury

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Passion Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Crazy Quotes

5. “I want to find something I’ve wanted all along Somewhere I belong.”

— Linkin Park

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Quotes About Songs

6. “The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Identity Quotes, Deep Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

7. “The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.”

— Emily Dickinson

Also featured in: Love You Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Quotes About Heart, Short Love Quotes

8. “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Care Quotes, Cute Quotes, Quotes About Heart

9. “All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.”

— William Shakespeare

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Love You Quotes, Romantic Quotes

10. “Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it’s too late. Say what you’re feeling. Waiting is a mistake.”

— Haruki Murakami

Also featured in: Carpe Diem Quotes, Love You Quotes, Quotes About Heart

11. “She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.”

— Nicholas Sparks

Also featured in: Desire Quotes, Romantic Quotes, Romance Quotes

12. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it.”

— Nora Roberts

Also featured in: Fulfillment Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes, Desire Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes

13. “If I lay here If I just lay here would you lie with me and just forget the world?”

— Snow Patrol

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Romantic Quotes, Short Love Quotes, I Love You Quotes

14. “My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Soul Quotes

15. “I will not live without love.”

— Vincent van Gogh

Also featured in: Desire Quotes, Quotes About Heart, Romantic Quotes

16. “You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Also featured in: Quotes About Heart, Romantic Quotes, Smile Quotes

17. “As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Also featured in: Ambition Quotes, Desire Quotes

18. “Don’t surrender your loneliness so quickly. Let it cut you more deeply. Let it ferment and season you as few human and even divine ingredients can. Something missing in my heart tonight has made my eyes so soft, my voice so tender, my need for God absolutely clear.”

— Hafez

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Loneliness Quotes

19. “Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Love Life Quotes, True Love Quotes, Valentine's Day Quotes

20. “It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.”

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Also featured in: Love Life Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Quotes About Heart

21. “I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable.”

— Henry Miller

Also featured in: Artist Quotes, Lonely Quotes

22. “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.”

— Joni Mitchell

Also featured in: Sad Quotes, Loss Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes, Quotes About Songs

23. “I don’t know if I ever told you this before, but you’re the only one I ever waited for this long.”

— Frank Ocean

Also featured in: Desire Quotes, Romantic Quotes, I Love You Quotes for Her, Heartbreak Quotes

24. “Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

Also featured in: Aesthetic Quotes, Romantic Quotes, Sky Quotes

25. “I love my brother. I miss my brother.”

— Randy Quaid

Also featured in: Sad Quotes, Loss Quotes, Sorrow Quotes, Thinking of You Quotes

26. “My heart is, and always will be, yours.”

— Jane Austen

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Cute Quotes, Desire Quotes

27. “If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Also featured in: Journey Quotes, Dreaming Big Quotes

28. “If I never see you again, I will always carry you, inside, outside, on my fingertips, and at brain edges, and in centers, centers of what I am, of what remains.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Loss Quotes, Hurt Quotes, Heartbreak Quotes

29. “I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”

— Virginia Woolf

Also featured in: Desire Quotes

30. “How we need another soul to cling to.”

— Sylvia Plath

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Romantic Quotes, Depression Quotes, Lonely Quotes

31. “Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.”

— Virginia Woolf

Also featured in: Cute Quotes, Romantic Quotes, Thinking of You Quotes

32. “Please forgive me, I know not what I do. Please forgive me, I can’t stop loving you.”

— Bryan Adams

Also featured in: Romantic Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes, Quotes About Songs, I Love You Quotes for Her

33. “Don’t let anyone ever make you feel you don’t deserve what you want...”

— Heath Ledger

Also featured in: Dreaming Big Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Women, Love Yourself Quotes, Famous Movie Quotes

34. “There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even during the best moments, and the greatest times, we will know it.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Sad Quotes About Life, Sorrow Quotes, Loneliness Quotes

35. “I miss my mother very, very much.”

— Paul Haggis

Also featured in: Sadness Quotes, Missing Someone Quotes, I Miss You Quotes, Mother's Day Quotes

36. “We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”

— Carson McCullers

37. “I’ll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us. There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Also featured in: Sad Quotes About Life, Life Quotes for Women

38. “Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Sufism Quotes

39. “People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of. It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Dreaming Big Quotes, Intention Quotes, Manifestation Quotes, Quotes About Dreams

40. “Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also featured in: Sadness Quotes

41. “I was born to love you with every single beat of my heart. I was born to take care of you every single day of my life.”

— Freddie Mercury

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Love Life Quotes, Thinking of You Quotes, Good Morning Quotes for Her

42. “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”

— Nora Ephron

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Love Life Quotes, True Love Quotes, Soulmate Quotes

43. “Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”

— Haruki Murakami

Also featured in: Sad Quotes About Life, Lonely Quotes

44. “I promise to love you forever – every single day of forever.”

— Stephenie Meyer

Also featured in: Love You Quotes, I Love You Quotes for Her, Romantic Quotes for Her, Thinking About You Quotes

45. “Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”

— Louisa May Alcott

Also featured in: Positive Quotes for Women, Dream Big Quotes

46. “Love, that is day and night – love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.”

— Walt Whitman

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Love You Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

47. “I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.”

— Victor Hugo

Also featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Different Quotes, Depression Quotes

48. “He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also featured in: Love Life Quotes, Couple Quotes, Romantic Quotes for Her

49. “I’ll wait for you forever.”

— Courtney Allison Moulton

Also featured in: Love Life Quotes, Soulmate Quotes, I Love You Quotes for Her, Thinking of You Quotes

50. “Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Love Life Quotes, Poetry Quotes