Longing Quotes · Page 12

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

— John Piper

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

— Martha McSally

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

— Paul Simon

I followed my longing to feel something new, my longing followed me right back to you..

— Re1ncarnated

Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.

— John Eldredge

And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

— Anonymous

In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.

— Joseph Hertz

“Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair. [Songs of Longing]”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of…

— Ben Kingsley

“I’d never dreamed anybody could love me the way he did. And even when he proved it to me time and again…

— Ranata Suzuki

If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart…

— Cyndi Lauper

We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and…

— Ron Pope

From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the…

— Swami Vivekananda

“If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. But after all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I…

— V.C. Andrews

There was a woman. First time I found someone that was truly alive. At least thats what I thought. She was the…

— Anonymous

“I'm going to have to get an entirely new social scene if I want to avoid him,' she said, hunting for evidence…

— Olivia Sudjic

“And George Farr had the town, the earth, the world to himself and his sorrow. Music came faint as a troubling rumor…

— William Faulkner

“Nearly a Valediction" You happened to me. I was happened to like an abandoned building by a bull- dozer, like the van…

— Marilyn Hacker

“Your little sister Has tossed her Untied hair forward Like a living veil, Like a fragrant hedge, And peers, with such eyes!…

— Hugo von Hoffmannstahl

“Annie didn't reply, her own words about death reminding her of the terror that had consumed her when she dropped beneath the…

— John Shors

Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless…

— Muriel Barbery

“We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched.…

— Jeanette Winterson

We are the mirror, as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute. We are…

— Rumi

And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints…

— Peter Matthiessen

Sometimes, missing is more precious than being together. Because we only miss those people who we never want to miss!

— Anonymous

“Dependence, she knew, and the longing for more than what you had, led to unhappiness and discontent.”

— Nora Roberts

“Methinks I lied all winter, when I swore My love was infinite, if spring makes it more.”

— John Donne

“Missing him. Longing for him. Worrying about him. Those were her nighttime journeys.”

— Kristin Hannah

“Oh, God, give us a longing—not for the sin of this world to be judged—but for the sinners of this world to…

— Beth Moore

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

— Anne Lamott

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

— Isak Dinesen

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

— Cornelia Funke

“I hung a picture of him above my bed and learned by hand the internal workings of the female combustion engine.”

— Shannon Celebi

Im a longing to see you. I wanna know how you been doing over yonder.

— Freddie Mcgregor

“I kept longing for a secret conversation, away from the pitchforks of the Internet”

— Sarah Hepola

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

— Joni Eareckson Tada

I think there is loneliness everywhere, and there is isolation and there is nostalgic, homesick, longing everywhere you go.

— Noah Kahan

“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”

— Augustine of Hippo

For the body at best Is a bundle of aches, Longing for rest; It cries when it wakes.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to…

— Alister E. McGrath