Best 608 quotes in «longing quotes» category

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.

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 have a desperate longing to have a desperate longing

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

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.

In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they were about the future of their homeland.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost.

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

Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground

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

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 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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Never cut loose from your longings.

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

Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.

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

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

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.

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.

only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.