Longings Quotes

102 quotes by 93 authors

At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish,… — Hermann Hesse
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
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
Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are… — Richard Bach
The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The… — Sarah Doudney
The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child,… — Ruth Bernhard
The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever. — Russell M. Nelson
Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing… — Susan Sontag
We are the total of our longings. — Guy Gavriel Kay
Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings,… — Saul Bellow
You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires. — Wallace D. Wattles
Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated into… — Robert Green Ingersoll
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
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
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
None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it. — Richard Chenevix Trench
The God who is worthy to be known and served for who He is, is Himself the answer to this world's longings. And those who… — Tom Wells
Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to… — Herbert Read
As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we… — William Cronon
Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do… — Harold Brodkey

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