The 70 best phrases of Longing

Missing someone is a feeling that we have all noticed at some point. Whether it is because of the distance or because of a death, we can feel that we long for that person that we used to have close to.

This feeling can be cause for sadness and even cause certain psychological disorders.

Great phrases of Longing

Sometimes it can be beneficial to reflect on this feeling in order to reconnect with our optimistic thinking.

Without further delay, we are going to know the best phrases of longing that great writers have left us, thinkers and poets of all ages.

1. Don't succumb to longing. Go to the street. Go to a neighboring city, to a foreign country..., but do not travel to the past that hurts. (Pablo Picasso)

A optimistic phrase of the great Malaga artist.

2. Between you and me (my mengana) a Berlin wall was erected made up of deserted hours, fleeting longings. (Mario Benedetti)

An unforgettable verse from the Uruguayan poet.

3. Longing suffocated under habit. (Gustave Flaubert)

Poetic reflection of the author of Madame Bovary.

4. The present does not exist, it is a point between illusion and longing. (Lorenzo Villalonga)

Longing phrase to reflect deeply.

5. No matter how well done the stitches are, it is difficult to live when our entrails have been replaced by longing for a person; It seems that the latter occupies more place than the former, we feel it continually, and furthermore, what ambiguity to be forced to think about a part of one's own body! (Marcel proust)

A way to live the duel and miss.

6. I found myself suddenly at the culmination of the bliss of love and consequently at the peak of my life, of my longings and aspirations. (Hermann Hesse)

The best moment of the life of this philosopher.

7. For too long I struggled with longing, with my gaze fixed on the distance, too long I remained in solitude, so I no longer know how to shut up. (Nietzsche)

A plea to live life with intensity.

8. Longing is the way before becoming a pillar of salt. (Enrique Múgica)

If one does not remedy it, it can be the way to doom.

9. A goose is forbidden any hint of longing. A goose has things to do, demands a lot of himself and looks down on his goose. (Robert Walser)

A funny phrase that can have a hidden meaning.

10. I'm going to miss you every moment, every moment of the day, because you have become the sun that illuminates my life. (Megan Maxwell)

Longing even before losing.

11. You have had to accept deprivation. That cures, shapes the character. (Libba Bray)

An iron personality is based on austerity and self-improvement.

12. Now I realize that she was not the one who left me. I was the one who didn't follow her. I chose and stayed. Condemned, turned into a beacon, as in stories that don't end well. Learning that the measure of affection is longing. Learning to know how to be. Me. With me. Being. (Alejandro Palomas)

Beautiful verse about a farewell.

13. I move the memory around the apartment from one side to the other, as if it were a piece of furniture or a painting that I don't know where to hang. (Nathan Filer)

Metaphor to understand how memories can anchor us to the past.

14. Who knows how it had been covered with very fine, almost imperceptible glazes, which were isolating it from reality. It had been mummifying. (José Agustín)

To reflect.

15. Perhaps he and I trusted too much in the permanence of old complicities worn out little by little by distance and indolence. (Antonio Muñoz Molina)

The wear and tear of living together can lead to dead ends.

16. It is very rare to feel that you long for something that you are not even sure you know. (David Foster Wallace)

Sometimes this feeling overwhelms us after having lived a very intense experience.

17. We will never know if all time in the past was truly better, or so it seems to us because it is time read, not lived; time deciphered in the pages of authors who have demystified and re-mythologized it for us. (Abilio Estévez)

A difficult psychological paradox to explain.

18. Before, he was someone who knew many things. Now nobody asks me for my opinion or advice. I miss. Before I was curious, independent and confident. I miss being sure of things. There is no peace in not being sure of everything, all the time. I miss doing everything with ease. I miss not being part of what is important. I miss feeling needy. I miss my life and my family. I loved my life and my family. (Lisa Genova)

As the years go by, we can have these mixed feelings.

19. Listen to me. If you hear that the past speaks to you, you feel that it pulls your back and that it runs its fingers down your spine, the best thing you can do, the only thing, is to run. (Lauren Oliver)

Forward and until you feel alive again.

20. A place she wasn't sure to love. A place that no longer existed, because what she was beginning to yearn for now that he was there was the Elizondo from his childhood. (Dolores Redondo)

One of those longing phrases that give us back a certain nostalgia.

21. Old times should never be longed for. He who longs for the old days is an old longing. (Daniel Glattauer)

We cannot live without looking to the future.

22. It is not good to remove the formulas from their freezing, turn secrets into words, translate memories into feelings, capable of killing even such good and severe things as love and hate. (Heinrich Boll)

Reflection on emotions and what we do with them.

23. They are what I was. They are what I lost, they are all I want to see. (Paula Hawkins)

Missing is a very human thing.

24. The dead belong to the living who most obsessively claim them. (James Ellroy)

When someone leaves us, it seems that is when we need it the most.

25. It is healthy to unclog the pipes of memory and finish making peace with everything that was left behind. (Maria Dueñas)

A kind of emotional catharsis, very necessary.

26. You have to leave the things of the past alone. (Fred Vargas)

Better not pay much attention to them.

27. When you feel longing, look up at the sky. (Donna Tartt)

Moving on is a must.

28. He had broken her heart to install the poison of longing. (Guillaume Musso)

This is how this French writer expressed himself.

29. Some details were erased, but the longing persisted. (Gustave Flaubert)

The memory can forget concrete things, but hardly the emotions.

30. How he longed for the ineffable feelings of love that at that time he was trying to imagine through books! (Gustave Flaubert)

Another phrase of longing for the French writer.

31. I have no home. So why should I be homesick? (Carson McCullers)

A peculiar vision about the home.

32. Because we can also long for our mistakes. (Ernesto Sábato)

To err is so human that it even deserves remembrance and praise.

33. The time had passed with enough force to reduce his nervous passion of that time to the range of curious anecdotes, which age poorly and begin to appear artificial, as if they depended on an outdated memory technology that revealed that the drama was staged on a cardboard stage stone. (Juan Villoro)

Reflection of the Mexican journalist and writer.

34. Anything that reminds me of you makes me so sad that I can't bear it. (Orhan Pamuk)

After a breakup we can feel this deep regret.

35. I always realize things belatedly: the past is very good for me, not the present. The present I cannot understand. (Nick Hornby)

In hindsight, everything is understandable and consistent.

36. (...) But there is no way to avoid time, the sea of ​​time, the sea of ​​memory and oblivion, the years of hope, lost and unrecoverable, of this land that was almost allowed to claim his best destiny, only to be taken from him by the same evil men as always, and he would be dragged and kidnapped in the future in which we must live now and to forever. (Thomas Pynchon)

Famous quote about longing for this American writer.

37. It is the tragedy of love, you can never love something you have more than something you long for. (Jonathan Safran Foer)

This is love, even if it is painful.

38. He who suffers has memory. (Cicero)

Past mistakes can be with us for a long time.

39. Saudade… A Portuguese word that has no literal translation; it means a deep longing for something or someone who is no longer there and who may never return. A kind of ultra-poignant hyper nostalgia. The love that lingers when someone is gone. (Mhairi McFarlane)

You can know more about the saudade concept in this post.

40. On the way I left a leg, a lung and a piece of liver. But I must say, right at this moment, that I was happy with cancer. I remember it as one of the best times of my life. (Albert Espinosa)

The life of this Catalan writer was marked by cancer and his personal improvement.

41. Mr. Baron was not really, in the last months of his life, more than a shadow of what he was, as It is often said, and before that shadow, which took on more and more spectral features, everyone turned away each time plus. And I myself, naturally, no longer had the same relationship with Paul's shadow as with the Paul from before. (Thomas Bernhard)

Free interpretation.

42. I remember with love the boy or girl that I was, knowing that I did the best I could with the knowledge I had at that time. (Louise L. There are)

A positive look at the adventures of another time.

43. My childhood are memories of a patio in Seville, and a clear orchard where the lemon tree ripens; my youth, twenty years in the land of Castile; my story, some cases that I don't want to remember. (Antonio Machado)

Memories of childhood are some of the most yearning.

44. The day or night when oblivion explodes, shatters or crackles, atrocious memories and wonderful memories they will break the bars of fire and drag the truth through the world at last, and that truth will be that there is no I forget. (Mario Benedetti)

Everything that happens leaves a trace, even if it is in our mind.

45. Haunted by our memories, we set about polishing our memory. (Boris Cyrulnik)

Reviewing our memories offers us the possibility of building a self-concept with which we feel comfortable.

46. I'm not lonely but I like to be alone, I like to love you from afar, to miss you sometimes. (Macaque)

Longing can be an exhilarating feeling.

47. What happens in the past is lived again in memory. (John Dewey)

To what extent does what we experience when we remember belongs to the past and not to the present?

48. Nothing can last that long, there is no memory, no matter how intense, that does not fade. (Juan Rulfo)

Like all things, memories go awry, since nothing is eternal.

49. Memories do not populate our loneliness, as they say; on the contrary, they deepen it. (Gustave Flaubert)

We can become more isolated if we base our lives on remembering.

50. Let's not lose anything from the past. Only with the past is the future formed. (Anatole France)

To forget is also to lose valuable knowledge.

51. The past does not want to be changed. (Stephen King)

What has happened tends to remain in our consciousness.

52. Look back and laugh at past dangers. (Walter Scott)

Seen in perspective, certain past risks make us feel better.

53. The past, a lake for a single swimmer: the memory. (Ali Ahmad Said Esber)

Only through memory can we experience the past.

54. Certain memories are like mutual friends, they know how to make reconciliations. (Marcel Proust)

We can find truths about ourselves again in memories.

55. The worst way to miss someone is to sit next to them and know that you can never have them. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

A form of feeling of loneliness that does not understand distances.

56. Take care of all your memories, you cannot relive them. (Bob Dylan)

This is one more reason why memories matter.

57. There is no worse nostalgia than longing for something that never ever happened. (Joaquin Sabina)

A way to fool yourself.

58. It's funny how we cling to the past, while we wait for our future. (Ally Condie)

A paradox that keeps us stagnant.

59. Ah the good times! When we were so unhappy (Alexander Dumas)

The passage of time leads us to idealize the past.

60. You cannot have a better future if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. (Charles Kettering)

A very simple idea so as not to stay in the past

61. Things are not the way they used to be, and they probably never were. (Will Rogers)

One of the phrases of longing that best summarizes this state of consciousness.

62. There is nothing so sweet as the homeland and one's parents, even if one has the most opulent mansion in a strange and distant land. (Homer)

The familiar is linked to our identity.

63. I love to remember: but nostalgia corrodes my body. (Tony Duvert)

This feeling can make memory a double-edged razor.

64. Do not leave the past as the past, because you will put your future at risk. (Winston Churchill)

With the past you have to build new things.

65. We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and a drive for the strange. In most cases, we feel nostalgic for places we have never known. (Carson McCullers)

A balance between the desire to know and the desire to inhabit the known.

66. Maybe you had to go to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to find out how dear your starting point was. (Jodi Picoult)

The absence is what, on many occasions, makes us value what we had.

67. We long for places, we remember places; they are the sounds, smells and sights of places that haunt us and against which we often measure our present. (Alan Gussow)

About the way these memories make us appreciate the present moment.

68. Russia is the only country in the world that you can be homesick for while you're still there. (John Updike)

A humorous reflection on the size of this enormous country.

69. I come for my lonely walk through the woods as nostalgia returns home. (Henry David Thoreau)

Thoreau is famous for having lived a long time in a wooden house in the forest, and for this reason he found this environment familiar.

70. I've been nostalgic for countries I've never been to, and longed to be where I couldn't be. (John Cheever)

The feeling of longing can even arise through the fact of fantasizing about places that we have never set foot.