Best 608 quotes in «longing quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

How can one live without hope and longing?

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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 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'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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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 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

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

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

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 like a seed that wrestles in the ground

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

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

Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.