Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing--to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the nearest desire, direct… — John Haines
The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps, but they led… — John Haines
Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the… — Adrienne Rich
There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones. — Mark Knopfler
So I step into the future, as bravely as I'm able, with my heart longing for a time I'll never see again. — Ekaterina Gordeeva
The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim… — Alva Myrdal
I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need… — Albert Camus
The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing. — Meg Wolitzer
I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean… — Lucy Stone
The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us… — Anne Michaels
Desire and longing are the whips of God. — Anna Wickham
Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to… — Alan Zweibel
Father, let me be weak that I might loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the… — Jim Elliot
We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to… — Jimmy Carter
The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening… — William S. Burroughs
Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future. — Joseph Goebbels
In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May… — Heinrich Heine
It is a matter of glimpsing that in God's new creation, of which Jesus's resurrection is the start, all that was good in the original… — N. T. Wright
Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel… — Michael Ignatieff
Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
When longing is most intense separation is complete, and the purpose of separation, which was that Love might experience itself as Lover and Beloved, is… — Meher Baba
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. — Julia Margaret Cameron
Thirsting desires and longings possessed my soul after perfect holiness. God was so precious to my soul that the world with all its enjoyments appeared… — David Brainerd
All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing. — Robert Olen Butler

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