Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific. — Eric Hoffer
Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then… — Eric Hoffer
Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the… — Rainer Maria Rilke
An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the… — Walter Pater
There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe… — Vincent Van Gogh
My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like… — Vincent Van Gogh
Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you. — Frank Herbert
There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I experienced an intense… — Alfred Stieglitz
Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable. — Lawren Harris
Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground — Emily Dickinson
Could it be in longing we are most ourselves? — Li-Young Lee
What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise language and lapidary images, Now,… — Rick Hilles
Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied. — Criss Jami
I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American. — Criss Jami
I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death. — C.S. Lewis
Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power… — Thomas Campion
If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life. — Anna Freud
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have… — Mahatma Gandhi
Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach? — Greta Garbo
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you… — Khalil Gibran
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its… — Kenneth Grahame

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