# Quotes about longing - Quotes: 78 - Authors: 58 - Broader topic: [Quotes about love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.json ## Quotes > On our way home she would not utter a single word. I walked anxiously beside her, looking at her tired old white face, the wrinkles that lined her neck, the deep, waiting black eyes, and the frail body, and I knew more than she thought I knew about the meaning of religion, the hunger of the human heart for that which is not and can never be, the thirst of the human spirit to conquer and transcend the implacable limitations of human life. [Richard Wright](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-wright.md) · [Black Boy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-wright/black-boy.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-wright/black-boy/on-our-way.md) Topics: [faith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > And dying, dreams of his sweet Argos. [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md) · [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/and-dying-dreams.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md), [homeland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/homeland.md) > The queen, for her part, all that evening ached > > With longing that her heart's blood fed, a wound > > Or inward fire eating her away. [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md) · [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/the-queen-for.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [passion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/passion.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > Three times I tried to fling my arms around her neck, > > three times I embraced—nothing... her phantom > > sifting through my fingers, > > light as wind, quick as a dream in flight. [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md) · [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/three-times-i-tried.md) Topics: [loss](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loss.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > I feel once more the scars of the old flame. [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md) · [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/i-feel-once.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > Translation: Lithuania, my country! You are as good health; > > How much one should prize you, he only can tell, Who has lost you... [Adam Mickiewicz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/adam-mickiewicz.md) · [Pan Tadeusz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/adam-mickiewicz/pan-tadeusz.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/adam-mickiewicz/pan-tadeusz/translation-lithuania-my-country.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md), [homeland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/homeland.md) > Aren’t our eyes made to be torn out, and our hearts for the same purpose? At the same time it’s really not that bad; that’s an exaggeration and a lie, everything is exaggeration, the only truth is longing, which cannot be exaggerated. But even the truth of longing is not so much its own truth; it’s really an expression of everything else, which is a lie. This sounds crazy and distorted, but it’s true. > > Moreover, perhaps it isn’t love when I say you are what I love the most — you are the knife I turn inside myself, this is love. [Franz Kafka](https://www.leafyquotes.com/franz-kafka.md) · [Letters to Milena](https://www.leafyquotes.com/franz-kafka/letters-to-milena.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/franz-kafka/letters-to-milena/arent-our-eyes.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. [Jean Rhys](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-rhys.md) · [Wide Sargasso Sea](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-rhys/wide-sargasso-sea.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-rhys/wide-sargasso-sea/she-had-left.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > Even today, I sometimes get really quite painfully homesick for Norwood. A sour smell that reminds me of the tanneries will bring it on, such as the smell from a basement down in the Italian part of the Village where some old Italian is making wine. That's one of the damnedest things I ever found out about human emotions and how treacherous they can be — the fact that you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it. Not to speak of the fact that you can hate a person with all your heart and soul and still long for that person. [Joseph Mitchell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-mitchell.md) · [Joe Gould's Secret](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-mitchell/joe-goulds-secret.md) · p. 67 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-mitchell/joe-goulds-secret/even-today-i-sometimes.md) Topics: [hatred](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > As the young reporter listens, it dawns on him that it is not the South that he longs for but the past, the South's past and his own past, neither of which, in the way that he has been driven by homesickness to think of them, ever really existed, and that it is time for him to move out of the time gone by and into the here and now — it is time for him to grow up. When the sermon is over, he goes back downtown feeling that the old man has set him free, and that he is now a citizen of the city and a citizen of the world. [Joseph Mitchell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-mitchell.md) · [Joe Gould's Secret](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-mitchell/joe-goulds-secret.md) · p. 144 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-mitchell/joe-goulds-secret/as-the-young.md) Topics: [the past](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-past.md), [growing up](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/growing-up.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them. [Carson McCullers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carson-mccullers.md) · [The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carson-mccullers/the-heart-is-a-lonely-hunter.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carson-mccullers/the-heart-is-a-lonely-hunter/maybe-when-people.md) Topics: [hope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > Every time you remember something, the memory weakens, as you’re remembering the last recollection, rather than the memory itself. Nothing can remain in tact. Still, it does not stop you wanting, does not stop you longing. [Caleb Azumah Nelson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/caleb-azumah-nelson.md) · [Open Water](https://www.leafyquotes.com/caleb-azumah-nelson/open-water.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/caleb-azumah-nelson/open-water/every-time-you.md) Topics: [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives, and there’s nothing they can do about it. They’re eaten alive by longing, and they’re dead before they die. [Lev Grossman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman.md) · [The Magicians](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magicians.md) · p. 88 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magicians/most-people-are.md) Topics: [boredom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/boredom.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md), [magic](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/magic.md) > His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he’d gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between. [Lev Grossman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman.md) · [The Magicians](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magicians.md) · p. 64 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magicians/his-crush-went.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > the sadness of a lost childhood feels like yearning, impossible desire. It feels like a hollow, insatiable hunger. [Stephanie Foo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephanie-foo.md) · [What My Bones Know](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephanie-foo/what-my-bones-know.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephanie-foo/what-my-bones-know/the-sadness-of-a-lost.md) Topics: [childhood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/childhood.md), [sadness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > In 1962, I put my home state of South Dakota in a rearview mirror and drove away. I was uncertain of my final destinatin but determined to get well beyond the slow rhythms of life in the small towns and rural culture of the Great Plains. I thought that the influences of the people, the land, and the time during my first twenty-two years of life were part of the past. But gradually I came to know how much they meant to my future, and so I have returned often as part of a long pilgrimage of renewal. > > When I do return, my wardrobe and home address are New York, my job is high-profile, and my bank account is secure, but when I enter a South Dakota cafe or stop for gas, I am just someone who grew up around here, left a while back, and never really answers when he's asked, "When you gonna move back home?" I am caught in that place all too familiar to small-state natives who have moved on to a rewarding life in larger arenas: I don't want to move back, but in a way I never want to leave. I am nourished by every visit. [Tom Brokaw](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-brokaw.md) · [A Long Way from Home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-brokaw/a-long-way-from-home.md) · p. 3 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-brokaw/a-long-way-from-home/in-1962-i-put.md) Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > A great longing is upon us, to live again in a world made of gifts. I can scent it coming, like the fragrance of ripening strawberries rising on the breeze. [Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer.md) · [Braiding Sweetgrass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass.md) · p. 32 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass/a-great-longing.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md), [gifts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/gifts.md) > Maybe that's why the two of them felt so connected. Both waiting, both missing an integral part of themselves, the constant ache in their bodies throbbing like a phantom limb. (chapter 16) [Ayelet Tsabari](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayelet-tsabari.md) · [Songs for the Brokenhearted](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayelet-tsabari/songs-for-the-brokenhearted.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayelet-tsabari/songs-for-the-brokenhearted/maybe-thats-why.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > Never mind if she sat out on her balcony at home sometimes and fought the urge to find him again, wondered what they could be like if they hadn’t crashed together the way they had, wondered what could have been in another timeline. [Akwaeke Emezi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/akwaeke-emezi.md) · [Little Rot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/akwaeke-emezi/little-rot.md) · p. 128 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/akwaeke-emezi/little-rot/never-mind-if-she.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > I was in a state of yearning, and I had been for years. I was not happy—had almost never been happy. > > This is terrible! I thought. All those lies! I felt physically sick to see it all: to see myself slack-jawed as a child in front of the television, to see myself in classes being told by robot teachers that “inward development” was the aim of life, that “quick sex is best,” that the only reality was in my consciousness and that it could be altered chemically. What I had wanted, what I had yearned for even then, was to be loved. And to love. And they had not even taught me the word. [Walter Tevis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-tevis.md) · [Mockingbird](https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-tevis/mockingbird.md) · p. 249 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-tevis/mockingbird/i-was-in-a-state.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [happiness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > Anyone who falls in love is searching for missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time. It's just a natural feeling. You're not the person who discovered that feeling, so don't go trying to patent it, okay? [Haruki Murakami](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami.md) · [Kafka on the Shore](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/kafka-on-the-shore.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/kafka-on-the-shore/anyone-who-falls.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > They say you can’t miss what you’ve never had, but that’s not true. [John Marrs](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-marrs.md) · [The One](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-marrs/the-one.md) · p. 130 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-marrs/the-one/they-say-you.md) Topics: [loss](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loss.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > In the deserts, however arid, I have never felt homesick for green fields and woods in spring, but now that I was in England I longed with an ache that was almost physical to be back in Arabia. [Wilfred Thesiger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilfred-thesiger.md) · [Arabian Sands](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilfred-thesiger/arabian-sands.md) · p. 187 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilfred-thesiger/arabian-sands/in-the-deserts.md) Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > As the plane climbed over the town and swung above the sea I knew how it felt to go into exile. [Wilfred Thesiger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilfred-thesiger.md) · [Arabian Sands](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilfred-thesiger/arabian-sands.md) · p. 310 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilfred-thesiger/arabian-sands/as-the-plane.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md), [emigration](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emigration.md) > A cloud gathers, the rain falls, men live; the cloud disperses without rain, and men and animals die. In the deserts of southern Arabia there is no rhythm of the seasons, no rise and fall of sap, but empty wastes where only the changing temperature marks the passage of the years. It is a bitter, desiccated land which knows nothing of gentleness or ease…..No man can live this life and emerge unchanged. He will carry, however faint, the imprint of the desert, the brand which marks the nomad; and he will have within him the yearning to return, weak or insistent according to his nature. For this cruel land can cast a spell which no temperate clime can match. [Wilfred Thesiger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilfred-thesiger.md) · [Arabian Sands](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilfred-thesiger/arabian-sands.md) · p. 1 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilfred-thesiger/arabian-sands/a-cloud-gathers.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go. [Rebecca Solnit](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rebecca-solnit.md) · [A Field Guide to Getting Lost](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rebecca-solnit/a-field-guide-to-getting-lost.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rebecca-solnit/a-field-guide-to-getting-lost/for-many-years.md) Topics: [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > I yearned for everything long gone. [Osamu Dazai](https://www.leafyquotes.com/osamu-dazai.md) · [Schoolgirl](https://www.leafyquotes.com/osamu-dazai/schoolgirl.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/osamu-dazai/schoolgirl/i-yearned-for.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md), [nostalgia](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nostalgia.md) > Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross. [Guy Gavriel Kay](https://www.leafyquotes.com/guy-gavriel-kay.md) · [Tigana](https://www.leafyquotes.com/guy-gavriel-kay/tigana.md) · p. 561 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/guy-gavriel-kay/tigana/words-were-power.md) Topics: [words](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/words.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > Home was a dream she’d had yesterday. A place where children used to play. Among towers near the mountains, by a river, on curving sweeps of white or golden sand beside a palace at the edge of the sea. [Guy Gavriel Kay](https://www.leafyquotes.com/guy-gavriel-kay.md) · [Tigana](https://www.leafyquotes.com/guy-gavriel-kay/tigana.md) · p. 225 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/guy-gavriel-kay/tigana/home-was-a-dream.md) Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > Zen has been called the "religion before religion," which is to say that anyone can practice, including those committed to another faith. And that phrase evokes that natural religion of our early childhood, when heaven and a splendorous earth were one. But soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. > > After that day, at the bottom of each breath, there is a hollow place that is filled with longing. We become seekers without knowing what we seek. [Peter Matthiessen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-matthiessen.md) · [Nine-Headed Dragon River](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-matthiessen/nine-headed-dragon-river.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-matthiessen/nine-headed-dragon-river/zen-has-been.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md), [spirituality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/spirituality.md) > Amor, in sooth, is like the mathematician who in order to give children a knowledge of pure form must do so in the language of pictures; so, too, the god, in order to make visible the spirit, avails himself of the forms and colours of human youth, gilding it with all imaginable beauty that it may serve memory as a tool, the very sight of which then sets us afire with pain and longing. [Thomas Mann](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-mann.md) · [Death in Venice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-mann/death-in-venice.md) · p. 44 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-mann/death-in-venice/amor-in-sooth.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > Hell is the absence of the people you long for. [Emily St John Mandel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel.md) · [Station Eleven](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel/station-eleven.md) · p. 144 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel/station-eleven/hell-is-the.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md), [hell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hell.md) > "When I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart." [Nicholas Sparks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks.md) · [Nights In Rodanthe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/nights-in-rodanthe.md) · p. 188 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/nights-in-rodanthe/when-i-sleep.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > Longing is the great human state. [Susan Cain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain.md) · [Bittersweet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/bittersweet.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/bittersweet/longing-is-the.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > We like art forms that express our longing for union, and for a more perfect and beautiful world. [Susan Cain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain.md) · [Bittersweet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/bittersweet.md) · p. 36 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/bittersweet/we-like-art.md) Topics: [art](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > Longing is momentum in disguise: It's active, not passive; touched with the creative, the tender, and the divine. [Susan Cain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain.md) · [Bittersweet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/bittersweet.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/bittersweet/longing-is-momentum.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > It doesn’t matter whether we consider ourselves "secular" or "religious": in some fundamental way, we're all reaching for the heavens. [Susan Cain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain.md) · [Bittersweet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/bittersweet.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/bittersweet/it-doesnt-matter.md) Topics: [faith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > We think we long for eternal life, but maybe what we're really longing for is perfect and unconditional love; a world in which lions actually do lay down with lambs; a world free of famines and floods, concentration camps and Gulag archipelagos; a world in which we grow up to love others in the same helplessly exuberant way we once loved our parents; a world in which we're forever adored like a precious baby; a world built on an entirely different logic from our own, one in which life needn't eat life in order to survive. [Susan Cain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain.md) · [Bittersweet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/bittersweet.md) · p. 178 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/bittersweet/we-think-we-long.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > The secret that our poets and philosophers have been trying to tell us for centuries, is that our longing is the great gateway to belonging. [Susan Cain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain.md) · [Bittersweet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/bittersweet.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/bittersweet/the-secret-that.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > We listen to sad music for the same reason we go to church or synagogue or the mosque. We long for the Garden of Eden, we long for Mecca, we long for Zion because we come into this world with the sense that there is a more perfect and beautiful world to which we belong, where we are no longer. [Susan Cain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain.md) · [Bittersweet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/bittersweet.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/bittersweet/we-listen-to-sad.md) Topics: [music](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/music.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > He had remembered Vardy’s melancholy, the rage in him, and what Collingswood had once said. She was right. Vardy’s tragedy was that his faith had been defeated by the evidence, and he could not stop missing that faith. He was not a creationist, not any longer, not for years. And that was unbearable to him. He could only wish that his erstwhile wrongness had been right. [China Miéville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville.md) · [Kraken](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/kraken.md) · p. 497 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/kraken/he-had-remembered.md) Topics: [faith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > But it isn’t absence that causes sorrow. It is affection and love. Without affection, without love, such absences would cause us no pain. For this reason, even the pain caused by absence is, in the end, something good and even beautiful, because it feeds on that which gives meaning to life. [Carlo Rovelli](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carlo-rovelli.md) · [The Order of Time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carlo-rovelli/the-order-of-time.md) · p. 105 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carlo-rovelli/the-order-of-time/but-it-isnt.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > "You disappear so completely into your head sometimes. I wish I could follow you." > > You do. You live in my head all the time. [Cassandra Clare](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare.md) · [City of Ashes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-ashes.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-ashes/you-disappear-so-completely.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't. [Sarah Dessen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-dessen.md) · [Dreamland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-dessen/dreamland.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-dessen/dreamland/i-wondered-if-he-ever.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did. [Sarah Dessen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-dessen.md) · [Dreamland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-dessen/dreamland.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-dessen/dreamland/after-everything-that.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > "Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars — points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything." [Stephenie Meyer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer.md) · [New Moon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/new-moon.md) · p. 514 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/new-moon/before-you-bella.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > The greater the happiness that nature sets before me, the more I lament that he is not here to taste it: the greater the bliss we might enjoy together, the more I feel our present wretchedness apart. [Anne Brontë](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte.md) · [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall/the-greater-the.md) Topics: [happiness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > The big reason why folks leave a small town," Rant use to say, "is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out. [Chuck Palahniuk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk.md) · [Rant](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/rant.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/rant/the-big-reason.md) Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss. (p. 208) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer.md) · [Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/its-the-tragedy.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since. [Arthur Golden](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-golden.md) · [Memoirs of a Geisha](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-golden/memoirs-of-a-geisha.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-golden/memoirs-of-a-geisha/he-was-like.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > "Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?" > > I could risk no sort of answer by this time; my heart was full. > > "Because," he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you — especially when you are near to me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous Channel, and two hundred miles or so of land, come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapped; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly." [Charlotte Brontë](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte.md) · [Jane Eyre](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre/are-you-anything.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > There are some secret springs in the affections which, when they are set a-going by some object in view, or, though not in view, yet rendered present to the mind by the power of imagination, that motion carries out the soul, by its impetuosity, to such violent, eager embracings of the object, that the absence of it is insupportable. [Daniel Defoe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-defoe.md) · [Robinson Crusoe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-defoe/robinson-crusoe.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-defoe/robinson-crusoe/there-are-some.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > When we have once known Rome, and left her […], we are astonished by the discovery, by-and-by, that our heartstrings have mysteriously attached themselves to the Eternal City, and are drawing us thitherward again, as if it were more familiar, more ultimately our home, than even the spot where we were born. [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne.md) · [The Marble Faun](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-marble-faun.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-marble-faun/when-we-have.md) Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream. [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne.md) · [The Scarlet Letter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-scarlet-letter.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-scarlet-letter/my-heart-was.md) Topics: [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiousity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city. [Evelyn Waugh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh.md) · [Brideshead Revisited](https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh/brideshead-revisited.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh/brideshead-revisited/but-i-was.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > It is thought that women inspire by their beauty; more often they do so by their longings. [Elizabeth Bowen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen.md) · [A Time in Rome](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/a-time-in-rome.md) · p. 132 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/a-time-in-rome/it-is-thought.md) Topics: [women](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > This is the most beautiful place on earth. > > There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary. A houseboat in Kashmir, a view down Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, a gray gothic farmhouse two stories high at the end of a red dog road in the Allegheny Mountains, a cabin on the shore of a blue lake in spruce and fir country, a greasy alley near the Hoboken waterfront, or even, possibly, for those of a less demanding sensibility, the world to be seen from a comfortable apartment high in the tender, velvety smog of Manhattan, Chicago, Paris, Tokyo, Rio, or Rome — there's no limit to the human capacity for the homing sentiment. [Edward Abbey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-abbey.md) · [Desert Solitaire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-abbey/desert-solitaire.md) · p. 1 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-abbey/desert-solitaire/this-is-the.md) Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > "Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?" [Ayn Rand](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand.md) · [Atlas Shrugged](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/atlas-shrugged.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/atlas-shrugged/have-you-ever.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md) > Think not that I have come in quest of common flowers; but rather to bemoan the loss of one whose scent has vanished from the air. [Murasaki Shikibu](https://www.leafyquotes.com/murasaki-shikibu.md) · [The Tale of Genji](https://www.leafyquotes.com/murasaki-shikibu/the-tale-of-genji.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/murasaki-shikibu/the-tale-of-genji/think-not-that.md) Topics: [loss](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loss.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > [Original] > > December 23, 1996 > > I took my morning walk, I took my evening walk, I ate something, I thought about something, I wrote something, I napped and dreamt something too, and with all that something, I still have nothing because so much of sum’things has always been and always will be you. > > I miss you. [Mark Z. Danielewski](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-z-danielewski.md) · [House of Leaves](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-z-danielewski/house-of-leaves.md) · p. 547 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-z-danielewski/house-of-leaves/original-december-23-1996.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are 'It might have been.' [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md) · [Cat's Cradle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle/of-all-the.md) Topics: [sadness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > And as Paul said these things to himself, a wave of sadness washed over them as though they'd been written in sand. He was understanding now that no man could live without roots—roots in a patch of desert, a red clay field, a mountain slope, a rocky coast, a city street. In black loan, in mud or sand or rock or asphalt or carpet, every man had his roots down deep—in home. [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md) · [Player Piano](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/player-piano.md) · p. 227 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/player-piano/and-as-paul.md) Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, > > There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; > > For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they say: > > “Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!” [Rudyard Kipling](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling.md) · [Barrack-Room Ballads](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/barrack-room-ballads.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/barrack-room-ballads/by-the-old.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > The years seemed to stretch before her like the land: spring, summer, autumn, winter, spring; always the same patient fields, the patient little trees, the patient lives; always the same yearning; the same pulling at the chain — until the instinct to live had torn itself and bled and weakened for the last time, until the chain secured a dead woman, who might cautiously be released. [Willa Cather](https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather.md) · [O Pioneers!](https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/o-pioneers.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/o-pioneers/the-years-seemed.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md), [everyday life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/everyday-life.md) > It simply makes sense that I should miss my parents more than they miss me, especially when you consider that they only loved me for thirteen years while I loved them my entire life. [Chuck Palahniuk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk.md) · [Damned](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/damned.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/damned/it-simply-makes.md) Topics: [parents](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/parents.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about. I didn't know what the hell to say. If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so many people about it. All I know about it is, I sort of miss everybody I told about. Even old Stradlater and Ackley, for instance. I think I even miss that goddam Maurice. It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. [J.D. Salinger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jd-salinger.md) · [The Catcher in the Rye](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jd-salinger/the-catcher-in-the-rye.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jd-salinger/the-catcher-in-the-rye/d-b-asked-me-what.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > I don't hate too many guys. What I may do, I may hate them for a little while, like this guy Stradlater I knew at Pencey, and this other boy, Robert Ackley. I hated them once in a while — I admit it — but it doesn't last too long, is what I mean. After a while, if I didn't see them, if they didn't come in the room, or if I didn't see them in the dining room for a couple of meals, I sort of missed them. I mean I sort of missed them. [J.D. Salinger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jd-salinger.md) · [The Catcher in the Rye](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jd-salinger/the-catcher-in-the-rye.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jd-salinger/the-catcher-in-the-rye/i-dont-hate.md) Topics: [hatred](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. [Jack Kerouac](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac.md) · [On the Road](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/on-the-road.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/on-the-road/the-one-thing.md) Topics: [death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood. We invest far-off places with a certain romance. This appeal, I suspect, has been meticulously crafted by natural selection as an essential element in our survival. Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game—none of them lasts forever. It is beyond our powers to predict the future. Catastrophic events have a way of sneaking up on us, of catching us unaware. Your own life, or your band's, or even your species' might be owed to a restless few—drawn, by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands and new worlds. > > Herman Melville, in Moby Dick, spoke for wanderers in all epochs and meridians: "I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas…" [Carl Sagan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan.md) · [Pale Blue Dot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/pale-blue-dot.md) · p. 2 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/pale-blue-dot/for-all-its.md) Topics: [travel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/travel.md), [survival](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/survival.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > 'Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zâram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf. Elves may see things otherwise. Indeed I have heard that for them memory is more like to the waking world than to a dream. Not so for Dwarves.' [J. R. R. Tolkien](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien.md) · [The Fellowship of the Ring](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring/memory-is-not.md) Topics: [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > Shadow could have been in his bed at home, he thought, in the apartment that he had shared with Laura—in the bed that he had shared with Laura. But the thought of being there without her, surrounded by her things, her scent, her life, was simply too painful. . . Don ’t go there, thought Shadow. He decided to think about something else. [Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md) · [American Gods](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/american-gods.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/american-gods/shadow-could-have.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md), [grief](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/grief.md) > 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. How can we ever be satisfied without them until our feelings are deadened? [George Eliot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot.md) · [The Mill on the Floss](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/the-mill-on-the-floss.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/the-mill-on-the-floss/it-seems-to.md) Topics: [desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > How often have Ι lain beneath rain on a strange roof thinking of home. [William Faulkner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner.md) · [As I Lay Dying](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/as-i-lay-dying.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/as-i-lay-dying/how-often-have.md) Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. [William Somerset Maugham](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham.md) · [The Moon And Sixpence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/the-moon-and-sixpence.md) · p. 1 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/the-moon-and-sixpence/perhaps-some-deep-rooted.md) Topics: [travel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/travel.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > The music, yearning like a God in pain. [John Keats](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-keats.md) · [The Eve of St Agnes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-keats/the-eve-of-st-agnes.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-keats/the-eve-of-st-agnes/the-music-yearning.md) Topics: [music](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/music.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > "Julia! Julia! Julia, my love! Julia!" > > For a moment he had had an overwhelming hallucination of her presence. She had seemed to be not merely with him, but inside him. It was as though she had got into the texture of his skin. In that moment he had loved her far more than he had ever done when they were together and free. Also he knew that somewhere or other she was still alive and needed his help. [George Orwell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell.md) · [Nineteen Eighty-Four](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/julia-julia-julia.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > Yes, everyone sleeps at that hour, and this is reassuring, since the great longing of an unquiet heart is to possess constantly and consciously the loved one... [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [The Plague](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-plague.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-plague/yes-everyone-sleeps.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md) > I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine. [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [The Stranger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-stranger.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-stranger/i-hope-the.md) Topics: [loss](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loss.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md)