Longs Quotes
162 quotes by 148 authors
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to…
— Teresa of Avila
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.
— Pierre Corneille
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The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
— Khalil Gibran
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Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by
— William Shakespeare
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The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one…
— Anton Chekhov
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Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God…
— John of the Cross
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The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.
— J. G. Holland
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The man who partakes in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of love. He becomes, as it…
— Francois Mauriac
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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs…
— Eugene Ionesco
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Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his…
— Ralph Ellison
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Do you really know the living Jesus - not from books but from being with Him in your heart? Have you heard the loving words…
— Mother Teresa
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Righteousness and generosity are inseparable. The person whose heart longs for God also longs to give to others.
— Dillon Burroughs
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A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
— Albert Einstein
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The mind can't take you where your heart longs to go.
— Debbie Ford
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One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
— Alan Rickman
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No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the…
— Barbara Brown Taylor
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Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who Wrote These Longs Quotes
148 authors contributed a total of 162 Longs Quotes, led by these top contributors: