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title: "Short Longing Quotations"
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> [I came to Him because I did not know which way to turn. I remained with Him because there is no other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ravi-zacharias/i-came-to-him-because-i-did-not-know-which-way-to-turn-i-remained/)

[Ravi Zacharias](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ravi-zacharias/)

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> [“How intense can be the longing to escape from the emptiness and dullness of human verbosity, to take refuge in nature, apparently…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boris-pasternak/how-intense-can-be-the-longing-to-escape-from-the-emptiness-and/)

[Boris Pasternak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boris-pasternak/)

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> [“…The love of his youth Appeared as in a dream And this ageing lover Went mad with love. The youth robbed him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hafiz-shirazi/the-love-of-his-youth-appeared-as-in-a-dream-and-this-ageing-lover/)

Hafiz Shirazi

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> [You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house-- , and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/you-beloved-who-are-all-the-gardens-i-have-ever-gazed-at-longing-an/)

[Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/)

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> [“Was the decline and decay of those houses inevitable, absent the political pressure and military conflicts of those times? How do they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shamsur-rahman-faruqi/was-the-decline-and-decay-of-those-houses-inevitable-absent-the/)

[Shamsur Rahman Faruqi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shamsur-rahman-faruqi/)

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> [Have you ever longed for someone so much, so deeply that you thought you would die? That your heart would just stop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracey-emin/have-you-ever-longed-for-someone-so-much-so-deeply-that-you-thought/)

[Tracey Emin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracey-emin/)

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> [Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand - an infinite ocean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-maurice-bucke/deep-in-the-soul-below-pain-below-all-the-distraction-of-life-is-a/)

Richard Maurice Bucke

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> [I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/i-am-constantly-trying-to-communicate-something-incommunicable-to/)

[Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/)

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> [La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe" le o u' nous battons des me lodies a' faire danser les ours, quand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-flaubert/la-parole-humaine-est-comme-un-chaudron-fe-le-o-u-nous-battons-des-me/)

[Gustave Flaubert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-flaubert/)

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> [“In speaking of this desire for our own far off country, which we find in ourselves even now, I feel a certain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/in-speaking-of-this-desire-for-our-own-far-off-country-which-we-find/)

[C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/)

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> [“We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-bysshe-shelley/we-look-before-and-after-and-pine-for-what-is-not-our-sincerest/)

[Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-bysshe-shelley/)

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> [The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-christopher-handy/the-name-of-my-ailment-was-longing-and-it-was-not-cured-till-i/)

[William Christopher Handy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-christopher-handy/)

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> [When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/when-religion-has-said-its-last-word-there-is-little-that-we-need/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Listen to the one who has not been wounded, the one who says, 'It is not good that man should be alone.'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-cohen/listen-to-the-one-who-has-not-been-wounded-the-one-who-says-it-is-not/)

[Leonard Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-cohen/)

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> [My soul aches every time I think of you, your thoughts floods my mind every day. I try to forget you but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi-rahman/my-soul-aches-every-time-i-think-of-you-your-thoughts-floods-my-mind/)

Rumi Rahman

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> [“Love is a fire that burns unseen, a wound that aches yet isn’t felt, an always discontent contentment, a pain that rages…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lu-s-vaz-de-cam-es/love-is-a-fire-that-burns-unseen-a-wound-that-aches-yet-isn-t-felt-an-2/)

Luís Vaz de Camões

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> [A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ford/a-reader-is-entitled-to-believe-what-he-or-she-believes-is-consonant/)

[Richard Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ford/)

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> [“I mean, by such flightiness, something that feels unsatisfied at the center of my life — that makes me shaky, fickle, inquisitive,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/i-mean-by-such-flightiness-something-that-feels-unsatisfied-at-the/)

[Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

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> [“Beyond aspects of pain that are physical, thought Oppenheimer, sickness or injury or privation, beyond the so-called obvious, suffering can be a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-millet/beyond-aspects-of-pain-that-are-physical-thought-oppenheimer-sickness/)

[Lydia Millet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-millet/)

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> [To have a firm foundation as a child of God is something that so many people are longing for and wanting because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-tebow/to-have-a-firm-foundation-as-a-child-of-god-is-something-that-so-many/)

[Tim Tebow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-tebow/)

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> [“So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the shadowy solitude my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-lovecraft-2/so-through-endless-twilights-i-dreamed-and-waited-though-i-knew-not/)

[H.P. Lovecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-lovecraft-2/)

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> [No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-c-clarke/no-utopia-can-ever-give-satisfaction-to-everyone-all-the-time-as/)

[Arthur C. Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-c-clarke/)

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> [It was a Sunday night full of stress, Where all I can think of is to give myself a rest; But afraid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darkl0ver/it-was-a-sunday-night-full-of-stress-where-all-i-can-think-of-is-to/)

DArkl0ver

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> [“I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I've worked hard at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/i-ve-always-tried-to-make-a-home-for-myself-but-i-have-not-felt-at/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

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> [I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/i-loved-the-quiet-places-in-kyoto-the-places-that-held-the-world/)

[Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/)

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> [For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gaskell/for-all-his-pain-he-longed-to-see-the-author-of-it-although-he-hated/)

[Elizabeth Gaskell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gaskell/)

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> [And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meg-wolitzer/and-didn-t-it-always-go-like-that-body-parts-not-lining-up-the-way/)

[Meg Wolitzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meg-wolitzer/)

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> [Jesus . . . wants us to see that the neighbor next door or the people sitting next to us on a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-pippert/jesus-wants-us-to-see-that-the-neighbor-next-door-or-the-people/)

[Rebecca Pippert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-pippert/)

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> [“He undressed, lay down, put out the light. Two names he whispered into his pillow, the few chaste northern syllables that meant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mann/he-undressed-lay-down-put-out-the-light-two-names-he-whispered-into/)

[Thomas Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mann/)

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> [Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/increase-and-widen-your-desires-till-nothing-but-reality-can-fulfill/)

[Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/)

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> [“When I opened the box, I had to remove myself from whose handwriting it was that I was reading and whose story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kara-martinelli/when-i-opened-the-box-i-had-to-remove-myself-from-whose-handwriting/)

Kara Martinelli

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> [“Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spreads itself over the world. Sad will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillips-brooks/dreadful-will-be-the-day-when-the-world-becomes-contented-when-one/)

[Phillips Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillips-brooks/)

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> [I'm interested in stories which insist on a dog fails-to-eat-dog kind of world. I hate misanthropy, want to believe that there's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-minghella/i-m-interested-in-stories-which-insist-on-a-dog-fails-to-eat-dog-kind/)

[Anthony Minghella](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-minghella/)

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> [“In the end, the train stood 2 hours motionless in the middle of nowhere. Every minute seemed like an eternity. Time felt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/makoto-shinkai/in-the-end-the-train-stood-2-hours-motionless-in-the-middle-of/)

[Makoto Shinkai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/makoto-shinkai/)

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> [Contrapasso; the fortune teller spends eternity in Hell with his head facing backward; the lovers, obsessed by their lust, are forced to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-orlenda-parangosky/contrapasso-the-fortune-teller-spends-eternity-in-hell-with-his-head/)

Margaret Orlenda Parangosky

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> [“They should not clench their fists, it’s my longing that’s drawing me near to them; they should not stand there full of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-walser/they-should-not-clench-their-fists-it-s-my-longing-that-s-drawing-me/)

[Robert Walser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-walser/)

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> [The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-history-of-the-american-negro-is-the-history-of-this-strife-this/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Admit it, He insists. I was right. No. I sniff. You were wrong. sniff. I'm just crying-sniff- cause I'm so happy. My…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tera-lynn-childs/admit-it-he-insists-i-was-right-no-i-sniff-you-were-wrong-sniff-i-m/)

[Tera Lynn Childs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tera-lynn-childs/)

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> [“For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/for-after-all-you-do-grow-up-you-do-outgrow-your-ideals-which-turn-to/)

[Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/)

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> [“Sitting cross-legged on her bed, I watch her take out her gear. She’s been smoking so much the room stinks of it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christine-lewry/sitting-cross-legged-on-her-bed-i-watch-her-take-out-her-gear-she-s/)

Christine Lewry

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                        "text": "“How intense can be the longing to escape from the emptiness and dullness of human verbosity, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labour, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!”",
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                        "text": "“…The love of his youth Appeared as in a dream And this ageing lover Went mad with love. The youth robbed him of Reason and his chastity. In pursuit of his Beloved, mad, deranged, He was from kith and kin estranged. The fire of the rose’s cheek Burnt the nightingale’s heart; The laughing flame Tormented the devoted moth…”",
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                        "text": "You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house-- , and you almost stepped out, pensive, to meet me. Streets that I chanced upon,-- you had just walked down them and vanished. And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back my too-sudden image. Who knows? Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening...",
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                        "text": "“Was the decline and decay of those houses inevitable, absent the political pressure and military conflicts of those times? How do they look now, dimly descried from this distance of time? What is it that veils their images now? Is it the sooty dark of the past, or the pink haze of nostalgia and longing? How did these people regard themselves? What value did they put on their own selves? What kind of light coloured their self-perception? Did they apprehend or even imagine that the glorious sheathing that was their culture was soon to be rent asunder so that their value systems would mutate into the impenetrable smoke of a country in conflagration, with the smoke destined to dissolve itself into the ocean of the new age, and that the discontinuity wrought by this dissolution would be a gulf whose depth no one could sound and into which men’s power to recall the past would weaken and dissolve, and their memories would lose their way forever?”",
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                        "text": "Have you ever longed for someone so much, so deeply that you thought you would die? That your heart would just stop beating? I am longing now, but for whom I don't know. My whole body craves to be held. I am desperate to love and be loved. I want my mind to float into another's. I want to be set free from despair by the love I feel for another. I want to be physically part of someone else. I want to be joined. I want to be open and free to explore every part of them, as though I were exploring myself.",
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                        "text": "Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand - an infinite ocean of calm, which nothing can disturb; Nature's own exceeding peace, which \"passes understanding\". That which we seek with passionate longing, here and there, upward and outward; we find at last within ourselves.",
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                        "text": "I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.",
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                        "text": "La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe\"  le   o  u' nous battons des me  lodies a'   faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les e  toiles. Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.",
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                        "text": "“In speaking of this desire for our own far off country, which we find in ourselves even now, I feel a certain shyness. I am almost committing an indecency. I am trying to rip open the inconsolable secret in each one of you—the secret which hurts so much that you take your revenge on it by calling it names like Nostalgia and Romanticism and Adolescence; the secret also which pierces with such sweetness that when, in very intimate conversation, the mention of it becomes imminent, we grow awkward and affect to laugh at ourselves; the secret we cannot hide and cannot tell, though we desire to do both. We cannot tell it because it is a desire for something that has never actually appeared in our experience. We cannot hide it because our experience is constantly suggesting it, and we betray ourselves like lovers at the mention of a name. Our commonest expedient is to call it beauty and behave as if that had settled the matter. Wordsworth’s expedient was to identify it with certain moments in his own past. But all this is a cheat. If Wordsworth had gone back to those moments in the past, he would not have found the thing itself, but only the reminder of it; what he remembered would turn out to be itself a remembering. The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.”",
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                        "text": "“We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell Of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever Should come near.”",
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                        "text": "The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.",
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                        "text": "When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents us from finding God in full revelation. In the and lies our great woe. If we omit the and we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for which we have all our lives been secretly longing.",
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                        "text": "“Listen to the one who has not been wounded, the one who says, 'It is not good that man should be alone.' Recall your longing to the loneliness where it was born, so that when she appears, she will stand before you, not against you. Refine your longing here, in the small silver music of her preparations, under the low-built shelter of repentance.”",
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                        "text": "My soul aches every time I think of you, your thoughts floods my mind every day. I try to forget you but I keep remembering you more. I want to say goodbye an never look back like you did but I keep coming back to you in my mind desperately wanting to so hi again.. Always shedding a tear here an there with your thoughts every day. Missing you in every breath, wishing you miss me just once an feel my pain. Longing to talk to you just once if never again?",
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                        "text": "A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not unusual that readers take away something that is spiritually at variance from what I myself experienced. That's not to say readers make up the book they want. We all have to agree on the facts. But readers bring their histories and all sets of longings. A book will pluck the strings of those longings differently among different readers.",
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                        "text": "“I mean, by such flightiness, something that feels unsatisfied at the center of my life — that makes me shaky, fickle, inquisitive, and hungry. I could call it a longing for home and not be far wrong. Or I could call it a longing for whatever supersedes, if it cannot pass through, understanding. Other words that come to mind: faith, grace, rest. In my outward appearance and life habits I hardly change — there’s never been a day that my friends haven’t been able to say, and at a distance, “There’s Oliver, still standing around in the weeds. There she is, still scribbling in her notebook.” But, at the center: I am shaking; I am flashing like tinsel. Restless. I read about ideas. Yet I let them remain ideas. I read about the poet who threw his books away, the better to come to a spiritual completion. Yet I keep my books. I flutter; I am attentive, maybe I even rise a little, balancing; then I fall back.”",
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                        "text": "“Beyond aspects of pain that are physical, thought Oppenheimer, sickness or injury or privation, beyond the so-called obvious, suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered, song of frustrated want, silence after desire. It can be the test of the self falling short, constrained, distorted, disturbed or rebuffed, the vacuum left by longing, call without an answer.”",
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                        "text": "To have a firm foundation as a child of God is something that so many people are longing for and wanting because they're searching for something more. There's got to be more out there. What is it? Well, I can tell you what it is. It's a relationship with the God of this universe, who loves you so much. That's what is it. That's what you're searching for. That's what you're longing for, and that's what you need.",
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                        "text": "“So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the shadowy solitude my longing for light grew so frantic that I could rest no more, and I lifted entreating hands to the single black ruined tower that reached above the forest into the unknown outer sky. And at last I resolved to scale that tower, fall through I might; since it were better to glimpse the sky and perish, than to live without even beholding day.”",
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                        "text": "No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the external world has granted all it can, there still remain the searchings of the mind and the longings of the heart.",
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                        "text": "It was a Sunday night full of stress, Where all I can think of is to give myself a rest; But afraid I am that I might have you in my dream again, So I kept on thinking until eleven. I prayed to God to give me a different dream, For two nights have passed that I have dreamt of me and you as a team; So God did answered my prayer and granted me a different one, But still you are there and it is no more fun. In my dream you where there with me walking in the garden, Talking with each other which I think would never seem to happen; Talking with each other as if we are best of friends, Talking with each other as if our conversation would never end, Being with you in that moment, is where I never wanted to be, A dream full of pictures I never wanted to see; So as I open my eyes lying in my bed, I realized that I just had a dream that I liked but never wanted.",
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                        "text": "“I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I've worked hard at being the hero of my own life. But every time I checked the register of displaced persons, I was still on it. I didn't know how to belong. Longing? Yes. Belonging? No.”",
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                        "text": "I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing was put to sleep in the stillness, and all was distilled into a clean simplicity. The smell of woodsmoke, the drift of incense; a procession of monks in black-and-gold robes, one of them giggling in a voice yet unbroken; a touch of autumn in the air, a sense of gathering rain.",
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                        "text": "For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of that gentle familiar attitude and all the attendant circumstances, he had a restless desire to renew her picture in his mind - a longing for the very atmosphere she breathed. He was in the Charybdis of passion, and must perforce circle and circle ever nearer round the fatal centre.",
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                        "text": "And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting.",
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                        "text": "Jesus . . . wants us to see that the neighbor next door or the people sitting next to us on a plane or in a classroom are not interruptions to our schedule. They are there by divine appointment. Jesus wants us to see their needs, their loneliness, their longings, and he wants to give us the courage to reach out to them.",
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                        "text": "Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be are expressions of your longing for happiness.",
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                        "text": "Contrapasso; the fortune teller spends eternity in Hell with his head facing backward; the lovers, obsessed by their lust, are forced to remained locked in permanent quotas--longing for separation. This is your Contrapasso... You've vanished; been taken from all those you love and hold dear. Only select few and very secretive people know that you're here, and as far as the rest of the grieving world is concerned: you, my dear, you are dead.",
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                        "text": "“They should not clench their fists, it’s my longing that’s drawing me near to them; they should not stand there full of rage, my longing is timidly drawing near to them; they should not be ready to pounce like vicious dogs, as if they wanted to tear my longing to shreds; they should not threaten with broad sleeves, that pains my longing. Why have they suddenly changed? As great and deep is my longing. No matter how difficult, no matter how menacing: I must reach them and I’m already there.”",
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                        "text": "The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American...",
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                        "text": "Admit it, He insists. I was right. No. I sniff. You were wrong. sniff. I'm just crying-sniff- cause I'm so happy. My tear take that lie as their cue and start streaming down my cheeks. Come on, Princess, he says, You don't need to cry over that loser. This only makes me cry harder. We both know who the loser is in this scenario. With a muttered curse, Quince wraps his arms around me and squeezes. It feels remarkably like a hug. Don't cry, he whispers in my ear. Please. I don't know if it's his soft words or the fact that my face is now hidden by his broad chest, but I just let go. Three years of longing and loving from a distance have built to the breaking point, and I let it out all over his west coast choppers T-shirt. shhh, He soothes. He's not worth it.",
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                        "text": "“For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments. And all the time your soul is craving and longing for something else. And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking in these cinders for some spark, however tiny, to fan it into a flame so as to warm his chilled blood by it and revive in it all that he held so dear before, all that touched his heart, that made his blood course through his veins, that drew tears from his eyes, and that so splendidly deceived him!”",
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