Longing Quotes
Longing Quote of the day
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.
How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound.
So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.
I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.
Lord, you are my lover, my longing, my flowing stream, my sun, and I am your reflection.
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.
Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?
Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
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.
I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.
They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.
The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.
The business that leaders are in today, is the business of transforming awareness... There is deep longing for more meaning, for connections.
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.
Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.
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
Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
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.
My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.
If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.
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.
Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.
Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.
Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.
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.
Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...
There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.
There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.
Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.
In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.
A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.
The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.
The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.
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.
Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection.