Best 608 quotes in «longing quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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 destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.

The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

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 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.

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

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 music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 single heart but has its moments of longing.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Tired of myself longing for what I have not

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.

To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love.

Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

We are the total of our longings.

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.

We must not stint Our necessary actions in the fear To cope malicious censurers, which ever, As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further Than vainly longing.

What is vanity but the longing to survive?

What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.

What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.

We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?