Longing Quote by Milan Kundera Download Open image “The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.” — Milan Kundera ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Longing Men Nostalgia Paradise
There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own. — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There is no man on the face of the earth who can satisfy the deepest longings of a woman's heart--God made us in such… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God. — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“From that time on they both looked forward to sleeping together. I might even say that the goal of their lovemaking was not so… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That's… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Having a child is to show an absolute accord with mankind. If I have a child, it's as though I'm saying: I was born… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end." Love is a battle?" said Franz.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“My only enemy is the miles of distance that's there between us, my favorite place is the road that leads me to you -… — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“And how do you really feel? Like I'll never recover. Like I'll never draw another breath without half of it being a wish for… — Jane Seville Copy Share Image
The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The greatest tales, well told, awaken the fears and longings of the listeners. Each man hears a different story. Each is touched by it… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
