Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a… — Anna Brownell Jameson
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. — Oscar Wilde
But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the… — Albert Einstein
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new… — Carson McCullers
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. — Mahatma Gandhi
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall… — Natalie Goldberg
The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers for the recognition that you are somebody. Somebody achieves that dream… — Rajneesh
Every gay reader understands the secret self that is full and wonderful and has longing and tenderness and a desire for connection to other people.… — Lynda Carter
I'm doing lots of interviews and stuff. I'm longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair… — Stevie Nicks
What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the… — Albert Einstein
If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation is… — Henri Nouwen
Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions, create new villains,… — Ravi Zacharias
At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the… — William Osler
Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the likeness of the… — John Owen
For, as has been indicated from the innate experience as well as from the longings within, a home - home - with all its deeper,… — Edgar Cayce
We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or… — Clementine Paddleford
The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that… — Khalil Gibran
In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an… — Albert Schweitzer
The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a longing to be… — Rajneesh
Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there… — Muriel Barbery
Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many… — Khalil Gibran
I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing… — William Joseph Burns
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation. — William James
Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why… — James Earl Jones
Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand - an infinite ocean of calm, which… — Unknown Author

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