Best 608 quotes in «longing quotes» category

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

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 music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Tired of myself longing for what I have not

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

We are the total of our longings.

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

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

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

We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

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

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

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.

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.

When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.

.. . . would I were In Grantchester, in Grantchester!

Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.

Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to their most shameful longings and knowledge?

who hasn't slept in an empty bed sometimes, longing for the embrace of another person on the achingly short trip to the grave?

With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.

4th prince, Life is like a dream, continuously changing…But the days pass soundlessly…It’s hard to forget one’s foolish longings. When someone told me very calmly that he wanted the throne, he already held the key to my heart. When he threw away the umbrella and endured and suffered the rain with me, I had opened the door to my heart for him. When he protected me by using his own body to block the arrow, I would never forget him in this life. Everything that happened after that only drew me in deeper…If there is love, there is anger. If there is love, there is hate. If there is love, there is obsession. If there is love, there is longing. Since we parted, there has been nothing but hate, anger, and longing transforming into inches of memories. I don’t know if you still resent me… …in Ruo Xi’s heart, there is no emperor, only the 4th Prince who has stolen my soul. We love, we miss, we don’t meet…Everyday, I wait for your arrival... -Ruo Xi

You're hungry for the infinite and the infinite is hungry for you.

You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.

All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful.