Best 608 quotes in «longing quotes» category

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

loneliness is a twilight moment by feelings, longing after something or someone you can not reach

Joy is big. Joy lives in your own drunken electrons, billions of them, spinning and dancing without end in their own intimate Universe, longing for You.

Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

Longing on a large scale makes history.

longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness

It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.

It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central to [my photographs]... This invisibility - this erasure out of the complex history of our life and time - is the greatest source of my longing.

It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.

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.

Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.

Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God.

Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth.

Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.

Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone without fears and longing.

Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.

My longings are best met when, in prayer, I simply let my heart beat in time with the Lord's.

My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.

Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Never cut loose from your longings.

Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable.

only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.

One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.

Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?

Our greatest longing is to be intimate.

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

People marry with a deep longing that their partner will tend to their wounds, not throw salt in them. Honor your partner's vulnerability.

O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one.

Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.

Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings. And why not? Because we are practically the ultimate paradox: the finite made for the infinite.

Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the one you are with; you are not liking the person you have become.

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.

Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are