Top 100 Longing For Quotes
#1. Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream of a blessedness that may someday be again.
Frederick Buechner
#2. Left wing ... Right wing ... it's so limited; why doesn't it ever occur to any of them that what one is really longing for is the wishbone?
Jan Struther
#3. America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.
Maurice Saatchi
#4. I experienced the happiest moment of my life when you took me in your arms as your wife and pressed me to your heart; when I even think of that moment my heart beats madly and I have a terrible longing for you, and I think I would hug you to death if I had you here now.
Hannah Pakula
#5. And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
Milan Kundera
#6. I've often thought, I'm nobody. Why would God answer my prayer? But God's not impressed by eloquence; he's impressed by our longing for him.
Stormie O'martian
#7. I watch in awe as Raffe pummels Beliel with blows so fast they're almost a blur. The force of the emotion behind those blows is immense. For the first time, he doesn't bother to hide his frustration and anger, or his longing for the wings he lost.
Susan Ee
#8. Even in faith, it is not easy for me to say to God, I am sorry for wanting my enemies to be destroyed and punished before my eyes. It is dishonest to say that it is easy to forgive our enemies, even to ask forgiveness for longing for revenge.
David Kwang-sun Suh
#9. I have a longing for fiction, to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#10. People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.
Rani Mukerji
#11. Deep within each of us is a longing for home. We yearn for a place of comfort where we can be ourselves, where we can realize our dreams.
Denise Linn
#12. In the hurtling pronghorn, the vanished predators have left behind a heartrending spectacle. Through the smoking displays of wild abandon runs a desperate spirit, resigned to racing pickup trucks in its eternal longing for cheetahs.
William Stolzenburg
#13. 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.
John Piper
#14. But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question back on the audience, and here's the definition we all came up with: hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.
Derrick Jensen
#15. Our burdens are here, our road is before us, and the longing for goodness and happiness is the guide that leads us through many troubles and mistakes to the peace which is a true Celestial City.
Louisa May Alcott
#16. It is queer, but my love and longing for the world are always deepened by my absence from it; it's wondrous, don't you think, that a person can swing from despair to gleeful hunger, and that even during these dark days there is happiness to be found in the smallest things?
Kate Morton
#17. The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.
Milan Kundera
#19. Everyone hustles his life along, and is troubled by a longing for the future and weariness of the present.
Seneca.
#20. Sometimes diaspora art expresses a longing for home, and frequently it tries to construct a collective identity out of its mostly heterogeneous reality.
Sieglinde Lemke
#21. The thing that attracts people to "The Sopranos" is the family element. It shows that America still has a longing for that traditional upbringing.
Christine O'Donnell
#22. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
Milan Kundera
#23. The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#24. I could reach great heights with your love,and with longing for you
I will increase a hundredfold.
They ask, why are you circling him?
O ignorance, I am circling myself.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#25. It's not so difficult to acknowledge that we lack wisdom. When we pray and seek God's wisdom with a longing for a deeper fullness of the life of Christ, then we will always find something to pursue.
Esther Smith
#26. The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.
Nathaniel Branden
#27. Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
Vladimir Nabokov
#28. Love is the essence of life,
Love is the universal language of all creation,
Love is the eternal desire,
Love is the life's flower with fragrance to share,
So feel the longing for love and being beloved.
Debasish Mridha
#29. I've always loved tales of broken lovers who roam through countrysides singing their stories of woe and separation, their honey- sweet longing for the next life when they can suddenly be re united. It makes other people happy, you see. It makes people grateful that it hasn't happened to them.
Roshani Chokshi
#30. I love you, but I love the past even more. I long for it, I long for it, I am consumed with longing for it. The past! I shall cry, I shall suffer because the past will never come back again.
Henri Barbusse
#31. My longing for you keeps me in this moment My passion gives me courage
Rumi
#32. And that was what destroyed you in the end: the longing for something you could never have.
Leigh Bardugo
#33. Others saw in the trend still another instance of a disturbing tendency in the American suburb: the longing for withdrawal, for self-enclosure, for expensive isolation.
Steven Millhauser
#34. The pangs of pain, of failure, in this mortal lot, are the birth-throes of transition to better things. We are separated for a time by the indifference of space and our blindness which particularizes and isolates us. But in us is a longing for unity.
John Elof Boodin
#35. Regrets. Sure you think about regrets, but it's not regret for the things you've done that occupy you, as much as it is a longing for the things you'll never have a chance to do.
Lori Lansens
#36. I was a well-educated young lady from Boston with a thirst for bohemian counterculture and no clear plan. But I had no idea what to do with all my pent-up longing for adventure, or how to make my eagerness to take risks productive.
Piper Kerman
#37. I am the one who needs rescuing. Save me ( ... ) Save me from going back to being the man I was before I came here. Save me from all the years of loneliness I'll have to endure without you in my arms. Save me from spending the rest of my life longing for a woman I can never have.
Teresa Medeiros
#38. That haunting longing for the moon returned. Stronger, broader, flavoured with all the bone-deep desire only a nocturnal creature could feel for their sole light-giver, the lonely satellite that watched over them when the rest of the daylight world abandoned them.
L.J. Hayward
#39. Today is such a lovely day,
my heart is dancing with joy.
My mind is flowing with time
and my soul is longing for your soul.
Debasish Mridha
#40. For Tolkien, a myth awakens in its readers a longing for something that lies beyond their grasp. Myths
Alister E. McGrath
#41. There weren't enough words in that moment to express the depth of our affection and our longing for each other. I never wanted this moment to end. Levi.
J.J. McAvoy
#42. You are that angel of paradise.
You are that flower of heaven.
This universe was longing for you,
with endless love for infinite time.
Debasish Mridha
#43. Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise.
Jean Klein
#44. In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden.
Dorothy Richardson
#45. God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.
N. T. Wright
#46. Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only art adequately translates it into reality. But when we assuage our need for faith with an ideology we court disaster.
Gerhard Richter
#47. So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.
Sonia Sanchez
#48. Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present.
Thomas S. Monson
#49. Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!
Paulo Coelho
#50. The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.
Helen Dunmore
#51. When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#52. I don't want to go through this. I don't want to be without her. I don't want to miss her like I do, longing for her taste, her touch, her sounds. I don't want to be reborn in this new world, a world that means nothing in her absence. I don't want to be in this life without her.
Laurelin Paige
#53. The flesh dies, or at least it changes, and its passions pass, but that other passion of the spirit - that longing for oneness - is undying as itself.
H. Rider Haggard
#54. If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#55. The life around me was not meaningful. I always longed to be away from it, and always had done. So the life I led was not my own. I tried to make it mine, this was my struggle, because of course I wanted it, but I failed, the longing for something else undermined all my efforts.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#57. Music expresses those thoughts and words, which have no form but have longing for love.
Debasish Mridha
#58. 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
#59. I did not have any role model. I could not learn anything from the female voice that male poets used, a voice which is more "feminine" than female. Nor could I learn anything from ancient female poetry that only sang about love, the feeling of farewell and longing for others.
Kim Hyesoon
#60. Love is your addiction to an eternal longing for someone ... A thirst which one cannot relinquish
Seema Gupta
#62. I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry.
Sonia Johnson
#63. My purpose of life is sweet indeed.
I like to help people when in need.
I am longing for happiness.
I am expressing my kindness.
I am expressing my love every day.
I am compassionate all the way.
Debasish Mridha
#64. Is that man's fate: to spend his closest hours to truth longing for a lie?
Tom Robbins
#65. Patiently, hopefully, actively we are waiting for Jesus. And yet here is the astonishing twist: As we wait for our Lord and the bodily resurrection yet to come for the departed, the world waits for us. As we long for God, the world is longing for God in us.
Jonathan Martin
#66. In the '90s, the radio was still alive with all different kinds of points of view, and I think that's why people are longing for that time. It was the first time that alternative music broke through to the mainstream.
Shirley Manson
#67. There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.
Judi Dench
#68. How do you stop longing for what you absolutely know you can't get? Which really means: How do you absolutely know you can't-and won't-get it, not ever? How do you pinch out that wisp of feeble, ruthless hope?
Leigh Newman
#69. Loneliness does not arise so much from something lost as from a longing for something well remembered. Isolation cares nothing for memory.
Marguerite Poland
#70. Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth.
Ravi Zacharias
#71. Nothing is forbidden in the world where you reign,' his eyes said. 'There's only longing for those who are not here, for those few who are worthy of you.
Vadim Babenko
#72. My whole life, I've felt I was homesick for somewhere I'd never known.' She told me that in Britain, where she grew up, the Celts called it 'hiraeth' - a longing for home.
Kate Lord Brown
#73. what despair to see a woman one loves longing for those thousand nothings from which women compose their happiness, and to be unable to give her those thousand nothings.
Alexandre Dumas
#74. She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.
Anna Godbersen
#75. Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.
Dalai Lama
#76. A longing for the extraordinary had grabbed ahold of her and was burning her up inside, so hot and fierce that her heart had gone stone cold toward everything and everybody standing in her way. That was Mama. Fire and ice.
D. Anne Love
#77. Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#78. It is not possible to achieve by vigilance in anger and revenge what the soul is longing for. The soul longs for peace.
James A. Forbes
#79. Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.
Leonard Cohen
#80. So I perversely circle the late stars, drowsier and drowsier, sleepily longing for something.
Sylvia Plath
#81. I've been longing for,
Daisies to push through the floor,
And I wish that plant life would grow all around me,
So I won't feel dead anymore.
Owl City
#82. Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.
Kate Morton
#83. Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home.
Shari Arison
#84. Today we're just growing and consuming, and I think maybe there's a sadness in that. People are longing for a time when there was a black and white and good and bad.
Gore Verbinski
#85. The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.
Pankaj Mishra
#86. The driver had on Radio 1, which was giving us Kylie Minogue's 'I should be so lucky'....By the song's second verse I was already longing for an IRA ambush and and by the second chorus I was dreaming of a rogue comet strike.
Adrian McKinty
#87. There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#88. To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture
how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?
Roger L'Estrange
#90. Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell
#91. There were moments when she felt a sudden, violent longing for him, but it was only impatience, not pain.
Ayn Rand
#92. What affirmation and denial are in the case of thinking, pursuit and avoidance are in the case of longing for something.
Aristotle.
#93. A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.
Anni Albers
#94. I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
Jack Dee
#95. Oh, my beauty!
Oh, my reflection of life!
Oh, my unmet desires!
I am longing for you
tor now and forever!
Debasish Mridha
#96. Normal men retain their childish longing for a woman to mother them. At adolescence a new desire is added. They want a girl to allure them. When you put these two together, you have the typical male yearning that Wonder Woman satisfies.
William Moulton Marston
#97. Your longing for ME is my message to you,
All your attempts to reach ME,
Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.
Rumi
#98. I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the love and money we lavish on pets, the uneasy longing for extraterrestrials to be meddling with us.
Annie Gottlieb
#99. 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.
Saskia De Brauw
#100. Oh my love! You are the light of love in the darkness. I am longing for you, you are my flower and freshness.
Debasish Mridha
