Famous quotes containing the word longing:
“All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.”
—Peter Shaffer (b. 1926)
“Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on [political offices], a rottenness begins in his conduct.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“She had brought love to the union and he had brought a longing after the flesh.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)