Longing Quotes
What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart.
The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience.
The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.
I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost.
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.
That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, To have no home in the present. And these are wishes: gentle dialogues Of the poor hours with eternity.
Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one.
A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals.
Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.
Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.
I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.
For me, the experience of being in other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.
I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.
.. now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me.
I am far from perfect, but I have something else. I heard that people in the industry are longing for more personality and diversity. Perhaps I am more a 'character' than a model.
Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.
I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.
Spirituality is man's conscious longing for God. Spirituality tells us that God, who is unknowable today, will tomorrow become knowable and, the day after, will become totally known.
Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference.
Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as well admit there’s some of that too.
Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.
His breath in my ear, he ran his tongue along the curved edge, sucking the fleshy lobe and my small diamond stud into his mouth, and my eyes drifted closed while I babbled a weak sound of longing.
For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by an inbred love of communing with nature
What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful.
Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.
With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.
We must not stint Our necessary actions in the fear To cope malicious censurers, which ever, As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further Than vainly longing.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.
Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.
...and when he dies, cut him out in little stars, and the face of heaven will be so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no heed to the garish sun.
I am longing for you in life and in deathAs the moon is longing for night and life is longing for breath
My lips have touched more bottles than lovers and I'm half a shot away from psychotic.
Because we know he was simply a man, with weakness and frailties. Who yearned for the same things all of us do--to love and be loved
…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.
I miss you.I miss you. I miss you, I miss you.Be ready, because when I see you, I'll never let you go again.
