Longing Quotes

1123 quotes by 783 authors

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings. — Albert Einstein
I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me. — Robert Bly
Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively… — Arthur Kleinman
The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child,… — Ruth Bernhard
I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine… — Mahatma Gandhi
The historic period in which we live is a period of reawakening to a commitment of higher values, a reawakening of individual purpose, and a… — Robert Fritz
Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. — Leonard Cohen
Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging. — Tara Brach
The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but to make people… — John O'Donohue
We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We're of the earth, but don't belong to it, because we strain after the heavens; and… — John O'Donohue
Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of violent… — Diane Ackerman
To awaken a new longing for holiness: this is the great pastoral challenge that we have before us, if we want to be faithful to… — Unknown Author
Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols all Worn tokes,… — Ruth Pitter
Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without discretion. Truly the… — Richard Rolle
Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful. — John C. Maxwell
It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love and for comfort… — Nick Cave
The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever. — Russell M. Nelson
The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light… — Albert Einstein
I have a desperate longing to have a desperate longing — Joss Whedon

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