Longing Quotes

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

Believing that you are unworthy of love and belonging or that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong, is deadly.

Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

Your actions are your only true belongings.

The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.

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

I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing.

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

Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for.

Desire and longing are the whips of God.

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the one you are with; you are not liking the person you have become.

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...

Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.

You can't build a society purely on interests, you need a sense of belonging.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.

The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.