Knowledge Quote by Wilhelm von Humboldt

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature…

— Samuel Johnson

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.

— Swami Vivekananda

“The loss of an eager and unrestrained longing for someone or the lack of an unyielding desire of momentous incidents in life may blur…

— Erik Pevernagie

Living life, confused always searching to fulfil a unknown void in the soul never knowing were it is or what it looks like. It…

— Andrew Ropele

Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or of a…

— Caroline Knapp

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

— Albert Einstein

We know only that our entire existence is forced into new paths and disrupted, that new circumstances, new joys and new sorrows await us,…

— Heinrich Heine

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

— Khalil Gibran

The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first…

— John Ortberg

The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative.…

— Robert Briffault

Human beings desire comfort and familiarity.

— Vic Mensa

The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering expresses the great natural potential of mind.

— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche