Longing Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Longing on a large scale makes history.

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.

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

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

How can one live without hope and longing?

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

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

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.

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

I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.

It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.

He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.

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.

... our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

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.

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

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.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

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.

The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

My longings are best met when, in prayer, I simply let my heart beat in time with the Lord's.

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.

Even a painful longing is some form of presence.

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.

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

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

What you are longing for is longing for you.

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

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

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

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