Longing Quotes

Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.

I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind.

But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.

But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.

Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the additional act.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.

The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.

as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves

Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

If the entire divinity and domain of God sits in the heart of a person, and his longing becomes timeless, then man can develop the capacity to love.

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.

I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire for a life with less pressure.

I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from a place of deep, sad longing to be loved and to have it proven that you are of value.

And now the question: what do we do with the longing for what can destroy us?

Our greatest longing is to be intimate.

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.

You're hungry for the infinite and the infinite is hungry for you.

The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.

The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you.

The loneliest days are the ones where you keep company with someone you love who can’t hear you.

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.

You are all that you are longing for.

One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.

In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes.

I wasn't a person who was longing forever to have a baby; the desire came up suddenly.

When meditation makes you realize that you have so many limitations of your own and they are all created by you, the longing to break them will come.

It is not possible to achieve by vigilance in anger and revenge what the soul is longing for. The soul longs for peace.

Only longing can fill with more of itself.

Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life.

Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.

A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.

Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.

In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.

O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!

All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow, All the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience!

The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back.

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

For the body at best Is a bundle of aches, Longing for rest; It cries when it wakes.

A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.

Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.

The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.

I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that close and lasting friendships can give.