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Longing Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.
- An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.
- He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A…
- I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a…
More Longing Quotes
- The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of… — Saint Augustine
- Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from… — Teresa of Avila
- A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues… — Henry Ward Beecher
- There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings… — Saul Bellow
- Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to… — David Brainerd
- I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every… — Sandra Bullock
- The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how… — John le Carre
- Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put… — Coco Chanel
- Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers. — William Ames
- A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness… — Marguerite Duras
- I'm thinking of you, that's all I do, all the time. You're always the first and the last thing on this heart… — Dierks Bentley