Longed

Famous quotes containing the word longed:

“I have longed to move away
From the hissing of the spent lie....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the lovliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

“for never yet
Has lover lived, but longed to wive
Like them that are no more alive.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)