Longing Quotes

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

Malcolm Muggeridge

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".

We are the total of our longings.

Guy Gavriel Kay

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

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.

George Eliot

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