Quotes about Longing

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life. Votes: 5

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. Votes: 5

Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging. Votes: 4

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Votes: 4

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer. Votes: 4

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Votes: 4

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. Votes: 4

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. Votes: 4

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants. Votes: 4

Longing performs all things Votes: 3

Longing is all that lasts. Votes: 3

Longing is not always a reciprocal thing. Votes: 3

Longing alone is singer to the lute. Votes: 3

Longing on a large scale makes history. Votes: 3

Longing hearts could only stand so much longing. Votes: 3

Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground Votes: 3

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant. Votes: 3

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances. Votes: 3

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them. Votes: 3

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature. Votes: 3

Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce. Votes: 3

For the body at best Is a bundle of aches, Longing for rest; It cries when it wakes. Votes: 3

Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God. Votes: 3

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying. Votes: 3

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead. Votes: 3

Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God. Votes: 3

Got something to do with guilt,' Toro said. 'Her mother,neh?' 'Guilt. Longing. Got something to do with all of us. Votes: 3

"¦There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper, irresistible"”magic to make the sanest man go mad. Votes: 3

O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried! Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire. Votes: 3

Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for. Votes: 3

There in the windy flood of morning Longing lifted its weight from me, Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering, Swept as a sea-bird out to sea. Votes: 3

Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share. Votes: 3

Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step along the way will be determined by it. Votes: 3

Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar. Votes: 3

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep! Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed. Votes: 3

Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth. Votes: 3

What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us. Votes: 2

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. Votes: 2

Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies. Votes: 2

There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond. Votes: 2

Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers. Votes: 2

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. Votes: 2

Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action. Votes: 2

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach? Votes: 2

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. Votes: 2

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing. Votes: 2

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring. Votes: 2

But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him. Votes: 2

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise. Votes: 2

I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple - like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now. Votes: 2

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you're actively miserable. Votes: 2

I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse. Votes: 2

Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened. Votes: 2

That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now. Votes: 2

When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't. Votes: 2

It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another. Votes: 2

Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy. Votes: 2

The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. Votes: 2

Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God. Votes: 2

What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude. Votes: 2

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? Votes: 2

Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home. Votes: 2

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way. Votes: 2

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art. Votes: 2

Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally. Votes: 2

She was lost in her longing to understand. Votes: 1

Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.... Votes: 1

Poetry keeps longing alive. Votes: 0

Happiness is the longing for repetition. Votes: 0

The longing for paradise is paradise itself. Votes: 0

Sometimes, language is the sound of longing Votes: 0

Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing. Votes: 0

Writing is a constant exercise in longing. Votes: 0

All human eyes have longing in them. Votes: 0

Our greatest longing is to be intimate. Votes: 0

All language is a longing for home. Votes: 0

What you love is longing for you. Votes: 0

Only longing can fill with more of itself. Votes: 0

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need. Votes: 0

Desire and longing are the whips of God. Votes: 0

My longing for truth was a single prayer. Votes: 0

How can one live without hope and longing? Votes: 0

You are all that you are longing for. Votes: 0

It is human longing that makes us holy. Votes: 0

What is vanity but the longing to survive? Votes: 0

Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing. Votes: 0

Tired of myself longing for what I have not Votes: 0

I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything. Votes: 0

I don't have a vast longing for the stage. Votes: 0

Could it be in longing we are most ourselves? Votes: 0

A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing. Votes: 0

Even a painful longing is some form of presence. Votes: 0

Some feelings are stronger than fear: love, longing, desire. Votes: 0

The longing for light is the longing for consciousness. Votes: 0

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes. Votes: 0

What you are longing for is longing for you. Votes: 0

The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back. Votes: 0

Try claiming God's blessings instead of merely longing for them. Votes: 0

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God ... Votes: 0

Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be. Votes: 0

A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life. Votes: 0

I have a desperate longing to have a desperate longing Votes: 0

Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living. Votes: 0

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing. Votes: 0

I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing. Votes: 0

The secret of being happy is not longing for it! Votes: 0

The Heart is like a candle, longing to be lit! Votes: 0

Stop longing.You poison today's ease, reaching always for tomorrow. Votes: 0

We have no hope and yet we live in longing. Votes: 0

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing. Votes: 0

There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot. Votes: 0

The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood. Votes: 0

Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom! Votes: 0

It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all. Votes: 0

Don't let anger consume you if you're longing for true love. Votes: 0

There are lovers content with longing. I'm not one of them. Votes: 0

Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise. Votes: 0

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man. Votes: 0

Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly Votes: 0

I walk with a dual longing for life and for death. Votes: 0

Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive. Votes: 0

Have gentle utterances that will inspire a superior longing for all time.... Votes: 0

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing. Votes: 0

This longing to express and celebrate life is innate and quite beautiful. Votes: 0

The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation. Votes: 0

The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. Votes: 0

All that produces longing in the heart deprives the heart of freedom. Votes: 0

Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me. Votes: 0

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard. Votes: 0

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. Votes: 0

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing. Votes: 0

He who is too well off is always longing for something new. Votes: 0

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world. Votes: 0

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea Votes: 0

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or 'sweetness. Votes: 0

Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing. Votes: 0

The longing of my soul is to know and obey the Supreme-being,God. Votes: 0

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. Votes: 0

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. Votes: 0

And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing. Votes: 0

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint. Votes: 0

Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing. Votes: 0

The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing... Votes: 0

Old Fashioned' can expect strong interest because it taps into a universal human longing. Votes: 0

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations. Votes: 0

People are better inside in your head. When you're longing for them, they're perfect. Votes: 0

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure. Votes: 0

Strangely incurious, her lovers from before. She has worlds within I'm longing to explore. Votes: 0

My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing. Votes: 0

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God. Votes: 0

All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure. Votes: 0

My longing for you keeps me in this moment My passion gives me courage Votes: 0

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing. Votes: 0

Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied. Votes: 0

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure. Votes: 0

Out of sorrow entire worlds have been builtOut of longing great wonders have been willed Votes: 0

Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland. Votes: 0

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring. Votes: 0

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other. Votes: 0

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me! Votes: 0

I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world. Votes: 0

our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home. Votes: 0

The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering expresses the great natural potential of mind. Votes: 0

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. Votes: 0

Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future. Votes: 0

loneliness is a twilight moment by feelings, longing after something or someone you can not reach Votes: 0

Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons? Votes: 0

Entirety exists within me as exuberance ... in empty longing ... in ... the desire to burn with desire. Votes: 0

Love is your addiction to an eternal longing for someone...A thirst which one cannot relinquish Votes: 0

Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers. Votes: 0

All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing. Votes: 0

How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. Votes: 0

Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind. Votes: 0

My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful. Votes: 0

People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition. Votes: 0

A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals. Votes: 0

When I am looking for you, then in silence, your every atom is longing for me. Votes: 0

The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing. Votes: 0

My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth. Votes: 0

Iris, I am a bunch of longing dissolved in a sea of happiness in your love. Votes: 0

I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into. Votes: 0

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will. Votes: 0

But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them. Votes: 0

And now the question: what do we do with the longing for what can destroy us? Votes: 0

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. Votes: 0

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it. Votes: 0

longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness Votes: 0

That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance. Votes: 0

I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language. Votes: 0

Your calling my name is My reply. Your longing for Me is My message to you. Votes: 0

The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles. Votes: 0

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual. Votes: 0

The song of your soul is longing to be sung. Let your own essence express itself freely. Votes: 0

Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination Votes: 0

I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing. Votes: 0

Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference. Votes: 0

I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death. Votes: 0

So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season. Votes: 0

Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to. Votes: 0

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking. Votes: 0

Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial. Votes: 0

I wasn't a person who was longing forever to have a baby; the desire came up suddenly. Votes: 0

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write. Votes: 0

We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing. Votes: 0

Only your surface feels empty and longing; in your depths there is a firm weight of fullness. Votes: 0

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position. Votes: 0

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening... Votes: 0

Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts. Votes: 0

Lord, you are my lover, my longing, my flowing stream, my sun, and I am your reflection. Votes: 0

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are. Votes: 0

I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it. Votes: 0

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing. Votes: 0

The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers. Votes: 0

In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman. Votes: 0

Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite. Votes: 0

Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life. Votes: 0

The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned. Votes: 0

Regret is the longing for life's squandered opportunities; take action each day and strive to live without regret. Votes: 0

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. Votes: 0

The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard. Votes: 0

I'd definitely love to do more acting. My heart cries out for it; it's such a deep longing. Votes: 0

A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death. Votes: 0

Some people never say the words ‘I love you', for like a child they're longing to be told. Votes: 0

Anger keeps us down and hinders us from moving forward. Its power is strengthened by our longing for justice. Votes: 0

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for. Votes: 0

Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled. Votes: 0

Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing. Votes: 0

All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well. Votes: 0

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing. Votes: 0

Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say. Votes: 0

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing. Votes: 0

It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing. Votes: 0

Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy. Votes: 0

Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God. Votes: 0

All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess... Votes: 0

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute. Votes: 0

Sometimes a storm in your life is what will blow you to the place you are longing to be. Votes: 0

Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man. Votes: 0

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach. Votes: 0

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings. Votes: 0

She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there? Votes: 0

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows. Votes: 0

In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled. Votes: 0

Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross. Votes: 0

Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless. Votes: 0

I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic. Votes: 0

Look at the longing, the anguish of a sad fossil world / that cannot find the accent of its first sob. Votes: 0

How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound. Votes: 0

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition. Votes: 0

The very life within you is longing to be joyful because joyfulness is the nature of the source of creation. Votes: 0

There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me. Votes: 0

I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place. Votes: 0

Oh, my beauty!Oh, my reflection of life!Oh, my unmet desires!I am longing for youtor now and forever! Votes: 0

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful. Votes: 0

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing. Votes: 0

A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. Votes: 0

There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now. Votes: 0

Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other. Votes: 0

Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal. Votes: 0

Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing. Votes: 0

Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing. Votes: 0

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge. Votes: 0

Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met. Votes: 0

Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are Votes: 0

When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to? Votes: 0

The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own. Votes: 0

There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins. Votes: 0

What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? Votes: 0

The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this. Votes: 0

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. Votes: 0

We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts. Votes: 0

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. Votes: 0

He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory. Votes: 0

What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved. Votes: 0

The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order. Votes: 0

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom. Votes: 0

So I step into the future, as bravely as I'm able, with my heart longing for a time I'll never see again. Votes: 0

Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek. Votes: 0

I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me. Votes: 0

There is a song in your heart, only you can hear it. In silence, that is the song of longing and love. Votes: 0

The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes. Votes: 0

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American. Votes: 0

My mind is full of secrets I'm too afraid to tell. My body's full of longing for you to know me well. Votes: 0

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom. Votes: 0

Even in this world where you're getting everything you need and having this nice life, there's still loneliness and longing and disconnection. Votes: 0

My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop. Votes: 0

Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude. Votes: 0

Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine." Votes: 0

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Votes: 0

I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not. Votes: 0

The business that leaders are in today, is the business of transforming awareness... There is deep longing for more meaning, for connections. Votes: 0

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them. Votes: 0

Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you. Votes: 0

Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something. Votes: 0

I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way. Votes: 0

Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death. Votes: 0

People marry with a deep longing that their partner will tend to their wounds, not throw salt in them. Honor your partner's vulnerability. Votes: 0

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away. Votes: 0

The infinity of this vacancy, the pervasive pain, the longing for some spirit, some lightness, some joy - that's all that is left. Votes: 0

The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more piercing. Votes: 0

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom. Votes: 0

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance. Votes: 0

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it. Votes: 0

We are all the same ... all the same... longing to find our way back ... back to the One ... back to the Only One! Votes: 0

It is not possible to achieve by vigilance in anger and revenge what the soul is longing for. The soul longs for peace. Votes: 0

The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars. Votes: 0

I lose hope when the desire for life awakens within me; but I regain it whenever the longing for death comes upon me. Votes: 0

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing. Votes: 0

who hasn't slept in an empty bed sometimes, longing for the embrace of another person on the achingly short trip to the grave? Votes: 0

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. Votes: 0

The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light. Votes: 0

Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing. Votes: 0

He held his hands tightly together and cursed his daughter for bringing the terrible world, with its humiliation and longing, back to his door. Votes: 0

Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children of men. Votes: 0

Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately. Votes: 0

I've often thought, I'm nobody. Why would God answer my prayer? But God's not impressed by eloquence; he's impressed by our longing for him. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you think everybody hates you, then your ignorance is beyond the limit, because there's a loving heart somewhere longing to see your face. Votes: 0

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air. Votes: 0

An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations. Votes: 0

I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss. Votes: 0

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing. Votes: 0

The thing that attracts people to "The Sopranos" is the family element. It shows that America still has a longing for that traditional upbringing. Votes: 0

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself. Votes: 0

You are that angel of paradise.You are that flower of heaven.This universe was longing for you,with endless love for infinite time. Votes: 0

A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know. Votes: 0

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start. Votes: 0

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it. Votes: 0

the ache became longing, longing became nostalgia, nostalgia became fondness, and after a while he could see the funny side of it. A long while. Votes: 0

And in the background of Early's story was her voice. Her soul. Her sadness and longing. Because when it's raining, it's always Billie Holiday. p. 81 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What is the gospel according to Jesus? Simply this: that the love we all long for in our innermost heart is already present, beyond longing. Votes: 0

You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit. Votes: 0

America is a country ready to be taken-in fact, longing to be taken-by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process. Votes: 0

Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fearis an orphaned part of usseeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to returnto the lightand homeof ourselves. Votes: 0

Time no longer mattered. He knew he would have plenty of it at his disposal. The sight of the star filled him with indescribable longing. Votes: 0

What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? --Gravity's Rainbow, V699 Votes: 0

I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book. Votes: 0

We praise the strength, the patience and the longing of the people who did not stop thinking of freedom and democracy in these dark times Votes: 0

Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know. Votes: 0

Everything in the world of soul has a deep desire and longing for visible form; this is exactly where the power of the imagination lives. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels! Votes: 0

Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing of the human soul. Votes: 0

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life. Votes: 0

I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family. Different facts, same emotions. Votes: 0

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there. Votes: 0

The longing to be holy makes us weep, and we trust tears since they are made of water and come from our body, a double blessing. Votes: 0

Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to visit. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about repression and internal angst. Votes: 0

The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light. Votes: 0

One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth. Votes: 0

Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the additional act. Votes: 0

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received. Votes: 0

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. Votes: 0

Birdsong brings reliefto my longing.I am just as ecstatic as they are,but with nothing to say!Please, universal soul, practicesome song, or something, through me!" Votes: 0

Sacrifice is a state of mind in which our thoughts turn with longing [toward Heaven, the Ancestors], It is the supreme expression of loyalty, love, and respect. Votes: 0

America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a thriller writer, essentially. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is. Votes: 0

I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on your lips. Votes: 0

I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that close and lasting friendships can give. Votes: 0

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. Votes: 0

If the entire divinity and domain of God sits in the heart of a person, and his longing becomes timeless, then man can develop the capacity to love. Votes: 0

I craved your warmth. I hugged myself, rubbing my fingers up and down. I guess people are like insects sometimes, drawn to heat, A kind of infra-red longing. Votes: 0

So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life. Votes: 0

I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind ... Votes: 0

Deep within each of us is a longing for home. We yearn for a place of comfort where we can be ourselves, where we can realize our dreams. Votes: 0

It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do something fine and enduring...If you are willing, great things are possible to you. Votes: 0

Spirituality is man's conscious longing for God. Spirituality tells us that God, who is unknowable today, will tomorrow become knowable and, the day after, will become totally known. Votes: 0

The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind. Votes: 0

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing. Votes: 0

For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire for a life with less pressure. Votes: 0

The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been. Votes: 0

When meditation makes you realize that you have so many limitations of your own and they are all created by you, the longing to break them will come. Votes: 0

Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . . Votes: 0

But words are vain; reject them all"” They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart. Votes: 0

He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more. Votes: 0

The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much. Votes: 0

The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms. Votes: 0

If we really face our sadness, we find it speaks with the voice of our deepest longing. And if we face it a little longer we find that Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can you conceive of life apart from Him? Votes: 0

Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day. Votes: 0

Your children are not your children. They are lives longing for itself. They come here with their own destiny. Give them your love. They will find their own way. Votes: 0

The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown. Votes: 0

I'm 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. Votes: 0

I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it. Votes: 0

We seek fulfillment in our lives through heart connection with others. This is our soul's essence of joy, which spontaneously pulses through us, longing to share itself with another. Votes: 0

I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution. Votes: 0

Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again? Votes: 0

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other. Votes: 0

If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing. Votes: 0

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. Votes: 0

I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality. Votes: 0

The muffled syllables that Nature speaksFill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,She makes a sweeter music than is heard. Votes: 0

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways. Votes: 0

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to affirm the richness of us as human beings both as performers and audience members. Votes: 0

One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality. Votes: 0

For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by an inbred love of communing with nature Votes: 0

Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements. Votes: 0

Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements. Votes: 0

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love Votes: 0

Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be. Votes: 0

The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle"”it is in you. Votes: 0

The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness. Votes: 0

There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed. Votes: 0

The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind. Votes: 0

Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more. Votes: 0

I'm doing lots of interviews and stuff. I'm longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair and just going to the studio. Votes: 0

[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child. Votes: 0

France and America have a long history of mutual loathing and longing. Americans still dream of Paris; Parisians still dream of the America they find in the movies of David Lynch. Votes: 0

It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from. Votes: 0

There is a longing among all people and creatures to have a sense of purpose and worth. To satisfy that common longing in all of us we must respect each other. Votes: 0

I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again. Votes: 0

Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder. Votes: 0

I think that much of our depression, anxiety, and addiction has to do with what John writes about: the soul's need and longing for transcendence. This need is instinctual and unavoidable. Votes: 0

We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little. Votes: 0

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. Votes: 0

That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes an immigrant story into an American story . Votes: 0

What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart. Votes: 0

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,But life without meaning is the tortureOf restlessness and vague desire--It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The knowledge of your destiny is available to you, well before it actually happens, as a message streaming continuously from your heart to your brain, written in the language of longing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow, All the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience! Votes: 0

My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth. Votes: 0

My first novel was called 'Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald,' about the difficulties of graduating from college, the longing and mourning you feel when all your promise seems to float away. Votes: 0

Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he left the U.S.S.R. They wring your soul. Votes: 0

.. now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me. Votes: 0

Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry upon 'the days that are no more' with ineffable longing. Votes: 0

They asked him for help rebuilding the farm, but e only shook his head with a pang of longing in his heart. I'm tracking your killers",he whispered to his uncle.-Eragon Votes: 0

Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as well admit there's some of that too. Votes: 0

As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one. Votes: 0

The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us so full of longing to the sea. Votes: 0

When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description. Votes: 0

Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide. Votes: 0

Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,Have aged and lost our old affinity:One has to change to stay akin to me. Votes: 0

Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment. Votes: 0

I am far from perfect, but I have something else. I heard that people in the industry are longing for more personality and diversity. Perhaps I am more a 'character' than a model. Votes: 0

The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss. Votes: 0

Give to God just one thought of sincere love and longing and He responds: 'My child, one silent call from the depths of your soul, and I am there in an instant.' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment. Votes: 0

Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It was a fantastic feeling, but it left me restless because the most important thing in it was the longing, for what was going to be, not for what I did or had done. Votes: 0

When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity. Votes: 0

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing. Votes: 0

It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety. Votes: 0

Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus. Votes: 0

...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense. Votes: 0