Longing Quotes · Page 30

“I know you’re thinking about him and I know you miss him. I can feel your longing,” he said softly. ~ Nathan”

— Jennifer Hines

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

— Vera Nazarian

“In making God our buddy, we find Him nice for cuddling but not much help when the hurricane comes. UNFULFILLED LONGING FOR”

— James MacDonald

“And it seemed to me that longing was everything, longing is all we are.”

— Valerie Martin

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

— Paulo Coelho

We all have that incomplete love story hidden inside our hearts. Which still sometimes makes a reason for our sleepless nights!

— Anonymous

I still remember the days when you here with me. But I miss you even more.

— Anonymous

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

— Robert Bly

“Joy, fear, frustration, longing, friendship, anger, need, despair, love, lust?” “Yes.” “Yes, what?” “All of it,” I reply, because I’m all in…

— Anonymous

Things have changed for the worse. That's why former eastern bloc countries are electing communists again. We are missing them and longing…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

“They no longer wanted to entice anyone; all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possible of the…

— Franz Kafka

It's not so difficult to acknowledge that we lack wisdom. When we pray and seek God's wisdom with a longing for a…

— Esther Smith

Most lead lives at worst so painful, at best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to…

— Aldous Huxley

Buddha nature, is like the sun which is always shining, always present, though often obscured. We are blocked from our natural light…

— Stephen Levine

“Please, always look at me this way. Stare into my eyes and see me for who I am and know that there…

— Renea Mason

We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing,…

— Anne Lamott

“The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over…

— Steven L. Peck

I'm here again, a thousand miles away from you. A broken mess, just scattered pieces of who I am. I tried so…

— Francine Chiar

The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love…

— Sarah Doudney

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love…

— Albert Einstein

Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We…

— Pema Chodron

“Knock the bullshit off. Love her like crazy, endlessly, stripped of reserve and preservation. Be out of our fucking minds with love,…

— Pella Grace

We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I…

— Sam Keen

Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes…

— Shari Arison

“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life.”

— Hermann Hesse

I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest…

— Katy Lederer

“Love is your addiction to an eternal longing for someone...A thirst which one cannot relinquish”

— Seema Gupta

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

— Jack Kerouac

We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.

— Honore de Balzac

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself”

— Khalil Gibran

If we will deny the longing of love, we will lose even the last address of the stranger inside us.

— Sorin Cerin

“She inhabited a world from which I was excluded, and she had left me in an immense empty space.”

— Alfred Hayes

“I dread that it may be only a longing for annihilation. No person who has seen his own face plain can want…

— Shirley Jackson

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

— Orison Swett Marden

Everyday I tell myself I need to get over you, But every night I find myself thinking about how much I want…

— Anonymous

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

— John C. Maxwell

“I have late night conversations with the moon; he tells me about the sun, and I tell him about you.”

— S.L. Gray

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual…

— Sigmund Freud

“We are in the world where the longing mountains are the most grounded.”

— Sorin Cerin

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

— Ismail Merchant