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Longing Quotes

1.
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
Edith Stein

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

3.
If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
Anna Freud

4.
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
William Shakespeare

5.
The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.
John Piper

6.
The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.
Cornelia Funke

7.
The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness.
Marion Woodman

8.
I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing.
Warsan Shire

9.
Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back
Morrie Schwartz

10.
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.
Jane Urquhart

11.
Desire and longing are the whips of God.
Anna Wickham

12.
Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
Anselm Kiefer

13.
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
Martin Heidegger

14.
Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...
Andrei Tarkovsky

15.
Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the one you are with; you are not liking the person you have become.
Esther Perel

16.
Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.
Joseph Goebbels

17.
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.
Saint Augustine

18.
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.
Alister E. McGrath

19.
Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.
Georges Bataille

20.
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.
Soren Kierkegaard

21.
The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.
Carl Jung

22.
Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.
Ram Dass

23.
People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.
Bodhidharma

24.
Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.
Erwin McManus

25.
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?
Frank W. Boreham

26.
our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.
Isak Dinesen

27.
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.
Simone Weil

28.
Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.
Hildegard of Bingen

29.
Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
Tara Brach

30.
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
Richard Wagner

31.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
Henry Ward Beecher

32.
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.
Pier Paolo Pasolini

33.
Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.
Tullian Tchividjian

34.
But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs.
Ibn al-Farid

35.
Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.
Robert Hass

36.
Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.
Rumi

37.
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
Malcolm Muggeridge

38.
Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.
Xunzi

39.
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.
Helen Dunmore

40.
The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.
Milan Kundera

41.
He who is too well off is always longing for something new.
Jacob Grimm

42.
Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.
Evelyn Underhill

43.
It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
Albert Einstein

44.
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.
John Corapi

45.
The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.
John Masefield

46.
Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.
Jim Elliot

47.
only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
William Butler Yeats

48.
All human eyes have longing in them.
Ernesto Cardenal

49.
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.
Josef Pieper

50.
She was lost in her longing to understand.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez