Longing Quotes

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

I have Immortal longings in me.

William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 5 scene 2

The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.

Malcolm Muggeridge

I have Immortal longings in me.

William Shakespeare

When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Thomas Jefferson

I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Walt Whitman

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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

Orison Swett Marden

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

T. S. Eliot, Quoted in the May, 24 edition of "The Montreal Gazette".