Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights.… — Anatoli Boukreev
I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal… — Everett Ruess
I am in a constant state of surprise these days. Actually, now that I calculate, I've been betrothed only one full day, but it seems… — Mary Ann Shaffer
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there's a big… — Alex Haley
But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question back on the… — Derrick Jensen
Patti Callahan Henry’s THE STORIES WE TELL is a lyrical exploration of love and longing, secrets and suspicion, family and friendship, all told with the… — Mary Kay Andrews
Sometimes, language is the sound of longing — Simon Van Booy
I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can you conceive of… — Frank W. Boreham
It is good for God's people to be put in a place of longing so they feel a slight desperation. Only then can we be… — Lysa TerKeurst
My love is as a fever, longing still. — William Shakespeare
Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future. — Erwin McManus
False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly… — Rabindranath Tagore
Strive to see God in all things without exception. Do not smother yourself...If you start smothering yourself with a host of cares and longings and… — Saint Francis de Sales
That longing in the heart of a woman to share life together as a great adventure-that comes straight from the heart of God, who also… — Stasi Eldredge
Beauty is transcendent. It is our most immediate experience of the eternal. Think of what it's like to behold a gorgeous sunset or the ocean… — Stasi Eldredge
Our world is... longing to see people whose God is big and holy and frightening and gentle and tender... and ours; a God whose love… — Mike Yaconelli
Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive. — Erwin McManus
God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon it or fearful… — Sam Storms
When the soul betrays itself and loses the blessed and longed-for fervor, let it carefully investigate the reason for losing it. And let it arm… — John Climacus
Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations.… — Alexander Rodchenko
The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all books in the… — Michel Onfray
Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly — Elmer Diktonius
Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality… — Peter Wessel Zapffe
Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the one… — Esther Perel

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