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Famous Longings Quotes

Distance is a great promoter of admiration! — Denis Diderot

Distance sometimes lets you know who's worth keeping and who's worth letting go. — Frank Ocean

Long distance tells you a horse's real strength; Time tells you a person's true heart. — Changpeng Zhao

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. — Ouida

True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart — Helen Keller

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. - Japanese Proverbs

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. — Japanese Proverbs

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. - Gilbert Parker

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. — Gilbert Parker

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. — Kai Knudsen

If one is far away, one also gets far from the heart. — Turkish Proverbs

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there? — Richard Bach

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more. — Nicholas Sparks

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment. — Greta Scacchi

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. — Les Brown

We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there. — Pete Hautman

To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship. — Domenico Cieri

Short Longings Quotes

  • Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. — William Arthur Ward
  • I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. — George Bernard Shaw
  • The only real power comes out of a long rifle. — Joseph Stalin
  • Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. — Warren Buffett
  • The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it — Aneurin Bevan
  • As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves. — Swami Vivekananda
  • If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once. — Tupac Shakur
  • As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. — John Muir
  • Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do. — Jean Piaget
  • I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. — Edgar Allan Poe

Longings Image Quotes

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. - Confucius quote

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. — Confucius

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. - Helen Keller quote

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. — Helen Keller

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. - Proverbs quote

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. — Proverbs

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. - Sarah McLachlan quote

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. — Sarah McLachlan

Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared! - Tupac Shakur quote

Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared! — Tupac Shakur

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me. - Caligula quote

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me. — Caligula

How long will you keep pounding on an open door Begging for someone to open it? - Rabia Basri quote

How long will you keep pounding on an open door Begging for someone to open it? — Rabia Basri

As long as we live there is never enough singing. - Martin Luther quote

As long as we live there is never enough singing. — Martin Luther

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. - Johnny Depp quote

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. — Johnny Depp

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense. - Alexander Hamilton quote

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense. — Alexander Hamilton

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. - Kahlil Gibran quote

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran

Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can't stay long. - Tom Petty quote

Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can't stay long. — Tom Petty

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry. - Plautus quote

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry. — Plautus

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint. - Frida Kahlo quote

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint. — Frida Kahlo

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. - Kahlil Gibran quote

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. — Kahlil Gibran

I am willing to go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere -- so long as it's forward. - David Livingstone quote

I am willing to go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere -- so long as it's forward. — David Livingstone

The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long. - Lao Tzu quote

The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long. — Lao Tzu

There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it. - Jim Harbaugh quote

There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it. — Jim Harbaugh

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. - Scottish Proverbs quote

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. — Scottish Proverbs

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. - St. Jerome quote

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. — St. Jerome

Longings quote It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Love Long Distance Relationship Quotes

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you. — Pocahontas

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. — A. A. Milne

Longings quote Long term consistency trumps short term intensity.
Long term consistency trumps short term intensity.

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. — Nicholas Sparks

Things must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. — Umberto Eco

Longings quote No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn arou
No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn around.

Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss. — Henri Nouwen

All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long. — Sappho

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. — Vita Sackville-West

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you. — Nicholas Sparks

Missing Long Distance Relationship Quotes

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. — Alcibiades

Absence makes the heart grow fonder — Eleanor Roosevelt

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. — Nicholas Sparks

Longings quote I will go anywhere as long is it is forward.
I will go anywhere as long is it is forward.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. — John Dryden

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. — Unknown Author

Sadly when I want someone to hold me and tell me everything is going to be alright, I have no one. I miss you so much and I wish there was someone to love me when I am down. — Shane Johnson

Longings quote If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear and bid adieu; Though we sever, my fond heart Till we meet shall pant for you. — Robert Dodsley

But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby. — Daniel Handler

I miss your love, I miss your touch But I'm feeling you every day. And I can almost hear you say You've come a long way baby. — Robbie Williams

Long Distance Relationship Love Quotes

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. — Erica Jong

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does. — Peter McWilliams

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. — Dorothy Day

Longings quote The journey is long, but the goal is in each step.
The journey is long, but the goal is in each step.

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart. — Mahatma Gandhi

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely. — Charles M. Schulz

When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come. — Oprah Winfrey

Longings quote Once our minds are tattooed with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.
Once our minds are tattooed with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall — George Fetherling

It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. — Paul Valery

If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you. — Andrew Davidson

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. — Mignon McLaughlin

Inspiring Long Distance Relationship Quotes

There may be times when you just have to love people from a distance. — Joel Osteen

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning. — Henri Nouwen

True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have. — John Green

Longings quote Not everyone thinks the way you think, know the things you know, believes the things you believe, no
Not everyone thinks the way you think, know the things you know, believes the things you believe, nor acts the way you would act. Remember this and will go a long way in getting along with people.

I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. — Daniel Handler

Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it. — David Levithan

Wherever you go Whatever you do I will be right here waiting for you Whatever it takes Or how my heart breaks I will be right here waiting for you — Richard Marx

Longings quote It doesn't matter how slow you go, just as long you don't stop.
It doesn't matter how slow you go, just as long you don't stop.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it. — Aristotle

I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last — Nicholas Sparks

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Cute Long Distance Relationship Quotes

Distance makes the heart grow fonder. — Simone Elkeles

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. — Rick Warren

I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference. — Ernest Hemingway

Longings quote Once our minds are tattooed with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.
Once our minds are tattooed with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.

I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you. — Mary Martin

I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. — Josh Lanyon

Long Distant Relationship Quotes

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. — Elizabeth Berg

The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles. — John Masefield

Separation is not the end of love; it creates love. — Nancy Friday

Longings quote Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

Unfortunately, I'm more experienced than I care to admit on long-distance relationships. Just because that is my life. I travel because I love to. As a result, I have to sort of make it work when a relationship kind of comes into view. — Hunter Hayes

Here in my heart, that is where you will be; you will be with me, here in my heart. No distance can keep us apart, long as you are here in my heart. — Diane Warren

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away. — Erica Jong

I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time. — Megan McCafferty

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay. — Maggie Stiefvater

I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell. — Haruki Murakami

Long Distance Love Quotes

Absence makes heart grow fonder. — English Proverbs

I am waiting for the day when I will see you again and hold your soft hands, touch your sweet lips and hug you tight so that you will never leave me again. — Mercy Johnson

Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence. — Richard J. Foster

always thought of myself as a loving person. But she was right. I had been a fair-weather friend. As long as she was happy and nice, I loved back. But if she was unhappy or upset, I would feel blamed and then argue or distance myself — John Gray

We knew we'd be together, we didn't know when, But long distance love, never thought it would end. The feelings never changed until the call came... You were engaged, I was in pain. It was such a shame: the timing, it just wasn't right. So I say, 'Good luck,' and then I say, 'Good night.' — MURS

Long distance relationships are living proof that love is not just physical. I can feel you next to me even when you're thousands of miles away. Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering. — Paulo Coelho

I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday — Nicholas Sparks

Long distance relationships through mobile communication generally becomes poor because of the weak signals and ends up due to jammed networks — Amit Abraham

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Long distance is the next best thing to being there. But a dove in love would rather reach out and touch someone. Spring is in the air and all lines are busy with local calls as the wooing and cooing commences. — Charley Harper

Love And Long Distance Quotes

If I go away What would still remain of me? The ghost within your eyes? The whisper in your sighs? You see...Believe And I'm always there. — Jon Oliva

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him. — Jodi Picoult

The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful or brilliant or perfect than me he might be, he was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I would always belong to him, so would he always be mine. — Stephenie Meyer

The rivers flow long distances and their goodness spreads all over far and wide. We are far from each other but our love for each other is creating a story that will forever be remembered. — Daran Norris

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time. — Kevin Conroy

Finally he closed the distance between us and kissed me - a sweet, gentle kiss that held within it every single one of the thousand days I'd loved him as my everything, long after I'd begun to love him as a friend. — Aimee Carter

To do what we love we miss the ones we love. Long distance letters and phone calls and anything to make the distance disappear! That's what this means to me. — Hayley Williams

Long Distance Quotes

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be. — Rick Warren

Walking long distances is fundamental to being a hunter-gatherer, but people sometimes have to run. One powerful motivation is to sprint to a tree or some other refuge when being chased by a predator. — Daniel Lieberman

Huskies get in trouble. Huskies are well-known to be escape artists. Why? Because they were bred to go long-distance. They're not bred to be in the backyard and just look beautiful because they have blue eyes. — Cesar Millan

Long-distance runners have to be very strange people. You have to really want to do it. You don't have to win or beat someone, you just have to get through the thing. That's the sense of victory. The sense of self-worth. — Ted Corbitt

They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner. — Chuck Knox

Many who have nothing opposed to the few who have everything, and as long as these disparities remain, as long as these distances remain between people and forces, I think we'll be in a perpetual state of upheaval. — Harry Belafonte

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in. — Keren Ann

We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike. — Anneli Rufus

I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance. — Anthony Hopkins

God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance. — Ann Voskamp

Long Distance Friend Quotes

A friend is someone who allows you distance but is never far away. — Noah

Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in. — Coleman Barks

True friendship resists time, distance and silence. — Isabel Allende

A friend of mine is in a long-distance relationship. They have dates on Skype. They'll both watch the same movie and...play. — Emmy Rossum

I have made new friends and have many new people that I know. But hey, you will always be a special part of my heart because no one has been able to replace the space you left in it. — Stephen Lobo

Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance. — Graham Joyce

About once a year, I do these long-distance relays with some friends of mine, and it takes about 27 or 28 hours to complete it. — Anson Mount

It's never long distance between friends. — Sarah Dessen

The fields stretch out in long unbroken rows. We walk aware of what is far and close. Here distance is familiar as a friend. The feud we kept with space comes to an end. — Theodore Roethke

Distance Love Quotes

Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach; may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance. Don't leave me for a second, my dearest. — Pablo Neruda

I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance! — Dreama Walker

Friendships and loves are forgotten, and when they meet, they talk like strangers, like passers-by — Greek Proverbs

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep... — Robert Frost

I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power. — Jesse Owens

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent. — Joe Strummer

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday. — Robert Nathan

The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love. — Brian Houston

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. — Rainer Maria Rilke

At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will allure individual persons to identify with others in profound affinity. Because of thinking altogether, love will grow into Divinity. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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More Longings Quotes

As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day. - Vin Scully quote

As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day. — Vin Scully

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate. - George Harrison quote

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate. — George Harrison

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself. - Augustus quote

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself. — Augustus

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay. - Michael Chang quote

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay. — Michael Chang

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. - Oscar Wilde quote

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. — Oscar Wilde

My longing for truth was a single prayer. - Edith Stein quote

My longing for truth was a single prayer. — Edith Stein

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. - Mick Jagger quote

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. — Mick Jagger

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live. - Robert A. Heinlein quote

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live. — Robert A. Heinlein

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want. - Mike Tyson quote

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want. — Mike Tyson

Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden. - Ieyasu Tokugawa quote

Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden. — Ieyasu Tokugawa

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me. - Marilyn French quote

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me. — Marilyn French

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot. - Buster Keaton quote

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot. — Buster Keaton

I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. - Kevin Costner quote

I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. — Kevin Costner

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. - Friedrich Nietzsche quote

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. — Friedrich Nietzsche

How long should you try? Until. - Jim Rohn quote

How long should you try? Until. — Jim Rohn

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them. - Anna Magnani quote

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them. — Anna Magnani

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him. - Lou Holtz quote

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him. — Lou Holtz

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said. - Jackson Pollock quote

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said. — Jackson Pollock

Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten. - Aldo Gucci quote

Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten. — Aldo Gucci

I've been down a long road, but I promise you, it gets better. - Ronnie Radke quote

I've been down a long road, but I promise you, it gets better. — Ronnie Radke

Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent. - Fred Allen quote

Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent. — Fred Allen

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