Longing Quotes

1123 quotes by 783 authors

From the worldâ€™s perspective, there are many places you can go to find comfort. But there is only one place you will find a hand… — Charles Stanley
In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible physical power-enable a… — Sheila Kitzinger
The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing. — Sophie Kerr
My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop. — Gina Barreca
Our gifts seem so small in comparison to Godâ€™s. But our efforts count, even though like Simeon we only stretch out our arms in the… — Eberhard Arnold
The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money… — William Christopher Handy
Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I… — Jon Crosby
Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. — Ismail Merchant
My mind is full of secrets I'm too afraid to tell. My body's full of longing for you to know me well. — Heather Nova
Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint on us, the… — Robert Macfarlane
If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we make shapes on… — Carole Maso
None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it. — Richard Chenevix Trench
The God who is worthy to be known and served for who He is, is Himself the answer to this world's longings. And those who… — Tom Wells
America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring. — Maurice Saatchi
The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your… — B. Traven
It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who… — Pierre Loti
I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am… — Warsan Shire
President David O. McKay put it beautifully when he said, speaking of mothers, 'This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the gift to love,… — H. Burke Peterson
Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to. — Ashleigh Brilliant
I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing… — Unknown Author

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