Best 608 quotes in «longing quotes» category

A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...

as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves

Bound in primal longings, we pine to be understood by ourselves.

A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals.

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have come equipped with that famously ticking clock. Unlike so many of my friends, I did not ache with longing whenever I saw an infant. (Though I did ache with longing, it is true, whenever I saw a good used-book shop)

But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.

But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs.

Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing.

But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.

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But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.

Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine.

Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back

Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.

Desire and longing are the whips of God.

Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do something fine and enduring...If you are willing, great things are possible to you.

Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

Even a painful longing is some form of presence.

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.

Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.

Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.

He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream.

He who is too well off is always longing for something new.

How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you.

Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

How do you stop longing for what you absolutely know you can't get? Which really means: How do you absolutely know you can't-and won't-get it, not ever? How do you pinch out that wisp of feeble, ruthless hope?

How can one live without hope and longing?

How wonderful," he purred. "I've been longing to speak to you for days, Princess Cecelia." "And I've been wanting to kick you in the shin for days.

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.

If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.

I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.

I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.

I have a desperate longing to have a desperate longing

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.

I have not lost my fascination with death. I have not become a noticeably less intense person. I have not, nor will I ever, completely lose the longing for that something, that thing that I believe will fill an emptiness inside me. I do believe that the emptiness was made greater by the things that I did to myself.

I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing.

In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.

I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from a place of deep, sad longing to be loved and to have it proven that you are of value.

Im so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well.

In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.

Initially, less appealing to me than the idea of a vampire that is drawn by some misgiving or drawn by some sense of longing that he can't quite satiate.

In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes.