Longing Quotes
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.
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.
Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.
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.
A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.
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.
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.
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!
If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know.
Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
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?
Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.
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.
There is nothing on earth that can satisfy our deepest longing. We long to see God. The leaves of life are rustling with the rumor that we will - and we won't be satisfied until we do.
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.
Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.
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.
The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.
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.
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.
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.
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.
Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.
People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.
But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs.
Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.
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.
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.
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.
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.
Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.
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.
To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!
Learn that there is no cure for desire, no cure for the love of reward, no cure for the misery of longing, save in the fixing of the sight and hearing on that which is invisible and soundless.
It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
