Longing Quotes

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.

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

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

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.

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.

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

Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive.

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

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.

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

No one is longing to meet a desperate needy, angry, withholding, controlling person. If your beloved is out there they can't pick up your signals if you're dwelling in those spaces within yourself.

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

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

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.

Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.

Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly for peace, for understanding.

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

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

Dorian used to watch you like a starving man who wants meat. Now he looks at you like he wants seconds.

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

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.

Writing is a constant exercise in longing.

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.

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

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.

So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.

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

And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to compose a poem, an honest verse of longing / Or a simple song of hope.

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

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?

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

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

Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground

as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves

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.

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

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.

But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.

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

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