Best 608 quotes in «longing quotes» category

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

Our greatest longing is to be intimate.

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

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

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

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.

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

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

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

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

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

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

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.

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

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.

The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience.

That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, To have no home in the present. And these are wishes: gentle dialogues Of the poor hours with eternity.

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.

The business that leaders are in today, is the business of transforming awareness... There is deep longing for more meaning, for connections.

The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other.

The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.

The historic period in which we live is a period of reawakening to a commitment of higher values, a reawakening of individual purpose, and a reawakening of the longing to fulfill that purpose in life.

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.

The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.

The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.

The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.

The older I get, the more I feel like an exile, that I don't belong here. And I don't. I was made for heaven, and my heart is longing for it.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.

There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.

Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.

The very life within you is longing to be joyful because joyfulness is the nature of the source of creation.

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.

Tired of myself longing for what I have not

This longing to express and celebrate life is innate and quite beautiful.

We are the total of our longings.