Top 25 Longing Quotes of 228 - Page 3

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

Sigmund Freud

Self, Longing, Deprivation

Sigmund Freud (2008). “General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

John Masefield

Long Distance Relationship, Soul, Longing

John Masefield, Audrey Napier-Smith, William Buchan (1983). “Letters to Reyna”, London : Buchan & Enright

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

Heart, Heaven, Longing

He who is too well off is always longing for something new.

Jacob Grimm

Longing, Something New, Grimm

Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (2014). “Grimm's Fairy Tales: Complete and illustrated - 211 Tales”, p.106, Ageless Reads

All human eyes have longing in them.

Ernesto Cardenal

Eye, Longing, Humans

Ernesto Cardenal (1981). “Love”, Crossroad Publishing Company

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Development, Longing, Knowledge Is Power

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.370, Princeton University Press

only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.

William Butler Yeats

Art, Longing, Creation

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.172, Wordsworth Editions

Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.

Jim Elliot

Longing, Appetite, Passion And Purity

She was lost in her longing to understand.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Beautiful, Longing, Scene

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

Judi Dench

Past, Longing

Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.

Josef Pieper

Desire, Wonder, Longing

"Leisure, the Basis of Culture" by Josef Pieper, translated by Gerald Malsbary, South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine's Press, (pp. 106-107), 1998.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Gail Godwin

Longing, Intense

My love is as a fever, longing still.

William Shakespeare

Love Is, Fever, Longing

1609 Sonnets, sonnet 147.

The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.

William Chalmers Burns

Heart, Missionary, Longing

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

Rumi

Heart, Longing, Lit

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

Heart, Soul, Longing

richard chenevix trench (1862). “notes of the parables of our lord”, p.325

What is vanity but the longing to survive?

Miguel de Unamuno

Vanity, Longing

Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.59, Princeton University Press

Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more.

Meher Baba

Simple, Longing, Illusion