Longing Quotes

1123 quotes by 783 authors

The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening… — William S. Burroughs
Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future. — Joseph Goebbels
In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May… — Heinrich Heine
It is a matter of glimpsing that in God's new creation, of which Jesus's resurrection is the start, all that was good in the original… — N. T. Wright
Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel… — Michael Ignatieff
Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
When longing is most intense separation is complete, and the purpose of separation, which was that Love might experience itself as Lover and Beloved, is… — Meher Baba
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. — Julia Margaret Cameron
Thirsting desires and longings possessed my soul after perfect holiness. God was so precious to my soul that the world with all its enjoyments appeared… — David Brainerd
All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing. — Robert Olen Butler
All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well...desire by itself… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Have gentle utterances that will inspire a superior longing for all time.... — Philip the Apostle
Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled. — Hildegard of Bingen
We praise the strength, the patience and the longing of the people who did not stop thinking of freedom and democracy in these dark times — Joachim Gauck
Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be. — Laurie Colwin
Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and… — Robert Southey
TheÂ longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or 'sweetness. — Marion Woodman
Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland. — Eduard Shevardnadze
Glad and merry and sweet is the blessed and lovely demeanour of our Lord towards our souls, for he saw us always living in love-longing,… — Julian of Norwich
It is natural that people do not want to be involved with us too much. There is no problem down to the smallest egotistical longing… — Unknown Author

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