His Longings Quotes
- Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration or… — Jacques Maritain
- A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific. — Eric Hoffer
- Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then… — Eric Hoffer
- ...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for. — Alan Hollinghurst