Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

Itâ€™s Fitzgeraldâ€™s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though… — Maureen Corrigan
The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then… — Meister Eckhart
It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and… — Joseph Addison
O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms… — Rainer Maria Rilke
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and… — Ben Kingsley
How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound. — Elizabeth Ann Seton
I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's… — Jon Crosby
Sweet April-time-O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, And backward-hidden hands that clutch the… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
I am a man of peace. I am longing and working and praying for peace, but I will not surrender the safety and security of… — Stanley Baldwin
Only longing can fill with more of itself. — Virginia Woolf
Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for… — Calvin Trillin
If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have no alternative but to conceive… — Josef Pieper
The soul, in its longing to grow, will push us toward crisis points, bringing about a situation that will force us to leave behind the… — Alberto Villoldo
The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing... — Lynne Reid Banks
People are better inside in your head. When you're longing for them, they're perfect. — Donal Ryan
Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of deals or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer… — Maggie Scarf
Your calling my name is My reply. Your longing for Me is My message to you. — Unknown Author
I'm continually wrestling with the idea that there are certain things in this world that simply don't fit. The idea that I have this longing… — Jon Foreman
Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this one, enter that… — Steven Saylor

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