"The will to truth is merely the longing…" — Friedrich Nietzsche

More Longing Quotes

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• The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The… — Saint Augustine
• Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is… — Teresa of Avila
• A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction,… — Henry Ward Beecher
• There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we… — Saul Bellow
• Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect… — David Brainerd
• I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt… — Sandra Bullock
• The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern… — John le Carre
• Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow… — Coco Chanel
• Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers. — William Ames
• A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict… — Marguerite Duras
• I'm thinking of you, that's all I do, all the time. You're always the first and the last thing on… — Dierks Bentley

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