Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say. — Unknown Author
The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard. — Unknown Author
Consider the idea of a God who is essentially sadness and longing, yearning to reveal himself, to know himself through a being who knows him,… — Henry Corbin
So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in a thousand different… — Caroline Knapp
How ironic for peacemaking efforts to discover that hatred is stronger for many than love; that the longing to achieve power through military victories makes… — Oscar Arias
A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing. — Unknown Author
Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, there are… — Frederick William Robertson
I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on… — Warren G. Harding
I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that close and lasting… — Marlin K. Jensen
You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do… — Jon Crosby
So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into… — William Barclay
Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to… — Herbert Read
As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we… — William Cronon
Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step along the way… — Joan D. Chittister
For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing… — Thomas Gray
Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do… — Harold Brodkey
My longing for you keeps me in this moment My passion gives me courage — Unknown Author
So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his wife's body in… — Dag Hammarskjold
She was lost in her longing to understand. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek. — Seth Godin

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