Longing Quotes - Page 7

Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God.

You are all that you are longing for.

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you.

The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing.

In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.

It is not possible to achieve by vigilance in anger and revenge what the soul is longing for. The soul longs for peace.

In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

I lose hope when the desire for life awakens within me; but I regain it whenever the longing for death comes upon me.

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.

For the body at best Is a bundle of aches, Longing for rest; It cries when it wakes.

Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.

The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.

In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.

Longing performs all things

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.

I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.