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Longing Quotes by Mark Twain
- The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the…
- Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more…
- It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity…
- More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and…
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