Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit… — Soren Kierkegaard
As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as… — Rajneesh
What is vanity but the longing to survive? — Miguel de Unamuno
The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common… — Carl Jung
Writing is a voice that calls us from dreams, that peeks out of the corner of our eyes when we think no one is looking,… — Judy Collins
Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves… — Pema Chodron
I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather, the… — Bernadette Roberts
This is why Caliban was a punishment. I realize it now - it's a beautiful, perfect world of nothingness. No connection, no longing, no .… — Jackson Pearce
By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it go.… — Elizabeth Strout
Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows. — Swami Vivekananda
All language is a longing for home. — Unknown Author
There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now. — Henry Ward Beecher
My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive… — Elisabeth Elliot
Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing. — Eugen Herrigel
I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love… — Madonna Ciccone
God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. He asks your weakness: he has none of that… — Charles Spurgeon
My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for… — Roland Barthes
Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world… — N. T. Wright
Let us give up our longing for welfare, our love of war, and our desire to see the government control and shape our fellow citizens.… — Ron Paul
Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met. — R. C. Sproul, Jr.
While He [the Lord Jesus] was sitting alone by the well, 'There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water' (John 4:7). As man, the… — Gregory Palamas
Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing… — Rainer Maria Rilke
One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired. — Unknown Author

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