Longs Quotes

162 Longs quotes by 140 unique authors

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
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. — Carl von Clausewitz
Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend. — Pierre Corneille
The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. — Khalil Gibran
Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by — William Shakespeare
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
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
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
The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments. — J. G. Holland
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
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
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.
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
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
Righteousness and generosity are inseparable. The person whose heart longs for God also longs to give to others. — Dillon Burroughs
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. — Albert Einstein
The mind can't take you where your heart longs to go. — Debbie Ford
One longs for a director with a sense of imagination. — Alan Rickman
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
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
Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants… — Betty Rollin
It's a physical urge, huger and stronger than thirst or sex. Halfway back on the left side of my head there is a spot that… — Jean Hegland
We need to 'go out,' then, in order to experience our own anointing, its power and its redemptive efficacy: to the 'outskirts' where there is… — Pope Francis
Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that life… — William T. Vollmann
Psychics exploit the human beings' natural desire that longs for something higher. … The same way a pimp exploits the natural desire to be with… — Christine O'Donnell

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