Top 1128 Longing Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

People are longing for tribe and community.

All that produces longing in the heart deprives it of its freedom.

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.

Tired of myself longing for what I have not

Longing on a large scale makes history.

Longing alone is singer to the lute.

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.

Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground

All human eyes have longing in them.

The longing for Europe has been all but extinguished in the young.

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.

A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.

Writing is a constant exercise in longing.

I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.

Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?

The Heart is like a candle, longing to be lit!

The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

There's no shame in longing for peace.

All language is a longing for home.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

How can one live without hope and longing?

Sometimes, language is the sound of longing

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.

Desire and longing are the whips of God.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

Only longing can fill with more of itself.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.

I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into.

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

She was lost in her longing to understand.

Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.

I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

Even a painful longing is some form of presence.

Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.

What is vanity but the longing to survive?

Longing performs all things

We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful - a suffering continual - and yet not wanted by God - repulsed - empty - no faith - no love - no zeal. Souls hold no attraction - Heaven means nothing - to me it looks like an empty place - the thought of it means nothing to me and yet this torturing longing for God. Pray for me please that I keep smiling at Him in spite of everything. For I am only His - so He has every right over me. I am perfectly happy to be nobody even to God. . . . Your devoted child in J.C. M. Teresa

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

It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all.

Our greatest longing is to be intimate.

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

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

My love is as a fever, longing still.

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness.

There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it- do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly

There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.