Longing Quotes
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?” (…) A sigh of longing. “To be honest, I wanted to be ruler of the entire world. Or the ruler’s trophy wife.
But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.
Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.
Just as sure as the days go by, Jesus will come to us, looking for fruit; and He will come in personal hunger, needing and longing for the fruit which we might have ready for Him.
There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.
We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.
It got to a point of where it was ruining my health and I just hated it. I hated doing it and I couldn't stop without some kind of help to get the longing for it out of my system.
loneliness is a twilight moment by feelings, longing after something or someone you can not reach
Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.
Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to their most shameful longings and knowledge?
How wonderful," he purred. "I've been longing to speak to you for days, Princess Cecelia." "And I've been wanting to kick you in the shin for days.
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.
Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.
He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.
The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.
The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.
It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety.
I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.
God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.
All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.
I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.
I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they were about the future of their homeland.
If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong.
What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.
who hasn't slept in an empty bed sometimes, longing for the embrace of another person on the achingly short trip to the grave?
What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.
She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there?
My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.
More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.
The infinity of this vacancy, the pervasive pain, the longing for some spirit, some lightness, some joy - that's all that is left.
I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.
It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality.
Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.
Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.
How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!
The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.