825 Quotes About Longing

My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will grow to resemble it.

Desiderium sinus cordis

She had been his talisman, his cure for the insecurities and worries that he knew deep down didn't really matter, but somehow had always managed to get the best of him.

We have it in our head that if we fill our stomachs, we’ll fill our hearts.

We clean our plates, yet we’re still famished—starving for something other than food.

He was what the egotistical part of me had always longed for: danger, sexiness, popularity, style, unpredictability. The kind of man who'd always keep me guessing. Just one night with him and i'd already started to wonder if perhaps i'd spent the last two years in a comfortable coma.

Some part of me remembers what snow is, but this is the first time my new mind has seen it. It softens the crumbled sidewalks and turns rusty rooftops white. It’s beautiful. It crunches under my feet as I move toward the house, longing to understand.

I really should be studying now, but you're much more important to me than a .50 calibre machine gun.

The good news is that there is one kind of food you can never have too much of. The best way to fully recover from a food addiction or body-image problem is to fill up on the Lord.