Longing Quotes

1123 quotes by 815 authors

There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond. — Jan Myrdal
God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing.… — Robert Collyer
Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.... — Joe McMahon
Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children of men. — Richard Hooker
At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish,… — Hermann Hesse
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a… — Anna Brownell Jameson
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. — Oscar Wilde
But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the… — Albert Einstein
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new… — Carson McCullers
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. — Mahatma Gandhi
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall… — Natalie Goldberg
The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers for the recognition that you are somebody. Somebody achieves that dream… — Rajneesh
Every gay reader understands the secret self that is full and wonderful and has longing and tenderness and a desire for connection to other people.… — Lynda Carter
I'm doing lots of interviews and stuff. I'm longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair… — Stevie Nicks
What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the… — Albert Einstein
If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation is… — Henri Nouwen
Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions, create new villains,… — Ravi Zacharias
At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the… — William Osler
Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the likeness of the… — John Owen
For, as has been indicated from the innate experience as well as from the longings within, a home - home - with all its deeper,… — Edgar Cayce

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