Longing For My Father Quotes

#1. I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

#2. a nutshell, the choice is between going through this life awake or in a kind of stupor.

Amos Oz

#3. 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.

Mark Twain

#4. Hearing a crow with no mouth
Cry in the deep
Darkness of the night,
I feel a longing for
My father before he was born.

Ikkyu

#5. No matter how many rules we make for ourselves, rules don't create godly relationships. Only leaning on our faithful Father and longing to please Him with everything we do will set the stage for a beautiful romance!

Eric Ludy

#6. I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.18

Jill Lepore

#7. This happened to your father and to you, Galway-sick to stay, longing
to come up against the ends of the earth, and climb over.

Galway Kinnell

#8. Your level of consciousness depends on your love and understanding of this universe and all its contents.

Debasish Mridha

#9. So you say there is no Father Christmas, You say there is no Santa Claus Reindeer cannot fly, it's all a grown-up lie...

M.C. Frank

#10. Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.

Dallas Willard

#11. It is easy to show that the ego ideal answers to everything that is expected of the higher nature of man. As a substitute for a longing for the father, it contains the germ from which all religions have evolved.

Sigmund Freud

#12. I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.

Dean Koontz

#13. I always think of my father when I sing arias about loss and love and longing. It gave me that definite deep sorrow that one can only get from life experience, you know?

Sondra Radvanovsky

#14. The fictions were far more persuasive than the facts, and more persuasive than both was the longing to be caught up in a mass movement of solidarity, with the promise of emancipation at the end. My father's grievances were real and well founded. But his solutions were dreams.

Roger Scruton

#15. At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.

Frank Pittman

#16. Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but feeling all a Fathers Tenderness, longing to be at home that I might enquire and consider and take the Care I ought.

John Adams

#17. Prayer is humbly longing to know the Father's will.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. We knew our Father. There was no need for persuasion. Would not His Fatherliness be longing to give us our hearts' desire (if I may put it so)? How could we press Him as though He were not our own most loving Father?

Amy Carmichael

#19. Her deep romantic nature prevented her from demanding, from asking for that quenching. She wanted it to come freely, like flowers that are sent and not requested.

Sean Ferrer

#20. The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.

Alfred Bunn