Longs Quotes

162 Longs quotes by 140 unique authors

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area. — Jodie Foster
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their… — Soren Kierkegaard
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of… — Anthony de Mello
In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part.… — Salman Rushdie
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and… — Juvenal
Need-love says of a woman, "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection...appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and… — C.S. Lewis
The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong.… — Jeanette Winterson
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens,… — Anne Frank
To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly… — Marilynne Robinson
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from… — Albert Einstein
The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep. — Alice Hoffman
Every time the phone rang, my heart jumped. Was it Alexander? And when it wasn't him my heart would break into a million pieces. It… — Ellen Schreiber
The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after… — Milan Kundera
Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me! — David Lynch
A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person. — Milan Kundera
Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there. — Jeanette Winterson
And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs… — Meg Rosoff
Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by… — C.S. Friedman
Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the… — Milan Kundera
Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether… — Nicholas Sparks
Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of. — Ivan KlÃma
The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it. — Vera Nazarian
Holy angel, in Heaven blessed, My spirit longs with thee to rest — Gaston Leroux

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