Longing Quotes

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

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

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

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

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 longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness.

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.

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

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.

Desire and longing are the whips of God.

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

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

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

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

Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.

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?

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

Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs.

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

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

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

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

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

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

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

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

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

All human eyes have longing in them.

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.

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

Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.

only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.

She was lost in her longing to understand.

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.