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Longing quotes

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“Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have—to want and want—how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!” Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I shall do one thing in this life—one thing certain—that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.” Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive.” George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“I'd want it real. I'd take no pride in any hopeless longing. I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd: the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not...” Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star . . . It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist anymore. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.” Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

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Ayn Rand (2)
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