Top 100 Longing Heart Quotes
#1. It is necessary to pray to Him, with a longing Heart.
Ramakrishna
#2. Come, thou long expected Jesus, born to set thy people free; from our fears and sins release us; let us find our rest in thee. Israel's strength and consolation, hope of all the earth thou art, dear desire of every nation, joy of every longing heart.
Charles Wesley
#3. The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.
Josiah Royce
#4. Thou I cannot so freely say, My heart is with thee, my soul longeth after thee ; yet can I say, I long for such a longing heart (648).
Richard Baxter
#5. Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.
Anne Lamott
#6. Sex was the main component of her thoughts now. But love - and her desperate longing for it - had vanished from her heart like a migraine after a painkiller.
Augustine Sam
#7. Twilight-kind, oppressing the heart as with a condensed atmosphere of dreamy undefined love and longing.
George MacDonald
#8. And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to these would be to open his heart to his loneliness and longing and that was beyond bearing.
Martine Leavitt
#9. What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10. Every rose is longing for joy and love; every rose know the language of the heart.
Debasish Mridha
#11. The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.
John Piper
#12. Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#13. I gave way to a wave of home-sickness that almost shames me now when I recollect it. I find it impossible in cold blood, and at this distance, to put into words the longing that shook me. I have forgotten the pain in the neck, but never will I forget the pain in my heart.
H.V. Morton
#14. Beauty you lifted up my sleeping eye And filled my heart with longing with a look.
John Masefield
#15. My heart was saying, "Lord, take away this longing, or give me that for which I long." The Lord was answering, "I must teach you to long for something better.
Elisabeth Elliot
#16. 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!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#17. It was as if her heart had some instinctual longing for misery and pain.
Julie Plec
#18. Inside the inner core of God's heart were the thoughts of you and me, which transcended into a deep longing to be a heavenly Daddy to all mankind.
Hank Kunneman
#19. If thy meditation tends to fill thy note-book with notions, and good sayings, concerning God, and not thy heart with longing after him, and delight in him, for aught I know thy book is as much a Christian as thou (553).
Richard Baxter
#20. So I step into the future, as bravely as I'm able, with my heart longing for a time I'll never see again.
Ekaterina Gordeeva
#21. At every stage, addiction is driven by one of the most powerful, mysterious, and vital forces of human existence. What drives addiction is longing
a longing not just of brain, belly, or loins but finally of the heart.
Cornelius Plantinga
#22. I synonymously felt my heart beat rapaciously, the heart which was once void of anything alive and well. Now the heart was rasping and knocking on my ribcage as if it was demanding to come out, take its root and grow.
Diyar Harraz
#23. The older I get, the more I feel like an exile, that I don't belong here. And I don't. I was made for heaven, and my heart is longing for it.
John Corapi
#24. We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.
Robin Hobb
#25. The longing in a single person's heart for a wife or a husband finds its root in God's glory.
Matt Chandler
#26. From the world's perspective, there are many places you can go to find comfort. But there is only one place you will find a hand to catch your tears and a heart to listen to your every longing. True peace comes only from God.
Charles Stanley
#27. Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back
Morrie Schwartz.
#29. But she had dreamed of being his for too long. He had quite ruined her for a marriage of convenience. She wanted everything from him: his mind, his body, his name and, most of all, his heart.
Sarah MacLean
#30. If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.
Marianne Williamson
#31. Jesus is the answer to the longing of every human heart. The love of his heart is the only love capable of filling our human longing - because it is human, yet infinite, and because it is also divine. Not only does each individual need and desire this love, but the world, taken as a whole, needs it.
James Kubicki
#32. I have a moment where I finally realize that the aching heart, the longing, the grief, the insanity ... I finally get it after all these month. That all those things combined are what letting go feels like.
Lauren Hammond
#33. The knowledge of your destiny is available to you, well before
it actually happens, as a message streaming continuously from
your heart to your brain, written in the language of longing.
Martha Beck
#34. Oh, if only I could hurt with such misery once again, to feel the powers of love here inside my heart, the joys of heaven and the pains of hell!
Victor Villasenor
#35. 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.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#36. The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been.
Richard Jefferies
#37. Someone who touches your heart, all be it a mere fleeting moment, means no less than those who stay a lifetime. The longing is no less, and your life will never be the same after their gentle caress burns a swathe through your soul as there it will remain until the end of time...
Virginia Alison
#38. I don't know how you say good-bye to whom and what you love. I don't know a painless way to do it, don't know the words to capture a heart so full and a longing so intense.
Laura Wiess
#39. The dream was in fact a lot like the Vancouver weather - a dismal sort of longing, a rainy dreamy sadness, a weight that shifted round the heart.
Alice Munro
#40. Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#41. She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.
T.H. White
#42. You just know something is amiss, when you look at someone and long for something that is not yours or you cannot have. It's an absence
a loss of a heartbeat.
Nadege Richards
#43. God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon it or fearful of leaving it (dying), as well as to stir in our hearts a longing and yearning and holy anticipation for what is yet to come.
Sam Storms
#44. I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .
R.S. Thomas
#46. My head didn't ache, but my heart did. The longing for Aspen's arms was so familiar, it was like it never left.
Kiera Cass
#47. The longing at the heart of attraction is for union with the Beautiful.
John O'Donohue
#48. His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain.
Maggie Stiefvater
#49. If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.
Cyndi Lauper
#50. All that produces longing in the heart
deprives the heart of freedom.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#51. I know that touching you will be understanding my fingers for the first time.
Kels Adeline Sapp
#52. Looking back, I see that I was born with the subtle sense that material treasures alone, no matter how grand, would never be enough to satisfy the longing in my heart to see the light, to know the truth.
Rod Stryker
#53. None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.
Richard Chenevix Trench
#54. It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom.
Ted Dekker
#55. Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail.
Saint Augustine
#56. I loved him. I know you don't want to believe that, but I really, truly, giddy, heart-breaking, longing, achingly loved him.
Karin Slaughter
#57. Odette seemed a fascinating and desirable woman, the attraction which her body held for him had aroused a painful longing to secure the absolute mastery of even the tiniest particles of her heart.
Marcel Proust
#58. Women are certainly more happy in this than we men: their employments occupy a smaller portion of their thoughts, and the earnest longing of the heart, the beautiful inner life of the fancy, always commands the greater part.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
#59. Prayer simply means a longing of the heart, it is the wish felt, - it may be expressed, or not expressed. It may take the form of human language or it may never be uttered at all; still it is a prayer, if God only hears it in the secret recess of the heart.
Keshub Chandra Sen
#60. I hated longing. I hated it almost as much as I hated pining. It sapped the mind of good judgment, filled the heart with achiness, and distracted the vagina from other potential conquests.
Penny Reid
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. I'm going to have to get an entirely new social scene if I want to avoid him,' she said, hunting for evidence of him amongst her friends' feeds. I made a sympathetic face, but my heart leapt up onto her, beat its fists on her heart, yelled, Me Me Me!
Olivia Sudjic
#64. To deny oneself is to act no more from the standing ground of self.... No longing after the praise of men influence a single throb of the heart.
Right deeds, and not the judgment thereupon; true words, and not what reception they may have, shall be our concern.
George MacDonald
#65. His eyes locked with mine, and my breath caught at the raw longing and hope swirling in their gray depths. "You love me?" he asked hoarsely. Two hot tears ran down my face. "Yes." His mouth claimed mine with a fierce tenderness that made my heart want to explode in my chest.
Karen Lynch
#66. Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their souls are riven and they cry out to Him and there is no fear but only wildness of heart that springs from such longing ...
Cormac McCarthy
#67. The trouble with magic was that is was messy and dangerous and filled with longing. There were too many moments that made your heart stop and ache and start again.
Karen Foxlee
#68. They're talking as if nothing's happened, Soledad said to herself, and the jealousy ran from her ears into her heart, where it settled into her aorta and reshaped itself as longing and desire, the kind of want that makes one capable of poor but magnanimous decisions.
Derek Palacio
#69. Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth.
Sigrid Undset
#70. There is a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter longing to lie down and die.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
#72. 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
#73. I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man's chest.
Kristen Hope Mazzola
#74. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.
William Chalmers Burns
#75. I'd definitely love to do more acting. My heart cries out for it; it's such a deep longing.
Kylie Minogue
#76. Within my words there is a longing
To be written, through the senses to travel across the mind
To be perceived by your heart, to rest in your deep.
Preeth Nambiar
#77. [As a young man] I sought thrills! I found them in Christ. I looked for something that would bring perfect joy! I found it in Christ. I looked for something that would bring pleasure and that would satisfy the deepest longing of my heart! I found it in Christ. And my life has never been the same.
Billy Graham
#78. The great longing of an unquiet heart is to possess constantly and consciously the loved one, or, failing that, to be able to plunge the loved one, when a time of absence intervenes, into a dreamless sleep timed to last unbroken until the day they meet again.
Albert Camus
#79. 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
#80. Most people write off their longing for friends and family as so many losses in their lives, when they should count the fact that their heart is able to long so hard and to love so much as among their greatest blessings.
Etty Hillesum
#81. An Army wife is probably the only woman in the world who
knows and readily accepts that she is the mistress, because, let's
face it, the Army is the wife and the wife gets all the damn
attention!
Aditi Mathur Kumar
#82. Being inside this cottage, with dark wooden walls and hand-carved furniture like my own home, cast a darkened stain onto my heart.
Katherine McIntyre
#83. Hunger of the heart is much stronger than hunger for food.
Amanda Comer
#84. 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.
Mark Twain
#85. No matter how great the love, the pain, the sadness, the power of a heart, no one can recreate the sea. Nowhere else.
Ondjaki
#86. I reside in an abode where your thoughts imagine me... You reside in my heart where the auricles camouflage my longing...
Avijeet Das
#87. Can this be love that twists and tears the heart so? Does love give nothing but the power to hurt each other? Is this what makes the simplest touch blend longing and terror in equal measure? Whatever this is, it feels like a mortal wound.
Juliet Marillier
#88. To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!
Virginia Woolf
#89. I was surfing the Internet for a different sort of education. I surfed for photos of circus freaks and synonyms for the word intercourse and for answers to why staring at the stars in the evening tore my heart with longing.
Maggie Stiefvater
#90. My heart literally aches, that shit is not made up; it hurts for an unexpected, brief time warp of suddenly wanting and longing and believing, but then not having.
Rachel Cohn
#91. Clairey knew well that it was one thing to occupy his bed, quite another to occupy his heart.
Tracy Winegar
#92. You came and I was longing for you.
You cooled a heart that burned with desire.
Sappho
#93. Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.
Philip Sington
#94. Follow your heart. Then root its longing with the facts.
Gina Greenlee
#96. Dimitri always left my heart full of pain and longing, but I still wanted Adrian in my life.
Richelle Mead
#97. The Holy Spirit will not allow you to live satisfied on the rubbish heap; he will nurture a longing for the City of God to beat in your heart.
Gloria Furman
#98. Being without my dear one made my heart ache like it had been pierced with thousands of daggers that had been placed in ice and covered in salt.
Jillian Kleine Der Lowe
#99. It's amazing what the sound of voice you've been longing to hear can do to your heart
Colleen Hoover
#100. True worship that is pleasing to God creates within the human heart a spirit of expectation and insatiable longing.
A.W. Tozer
