Longing Quotes - Page 8

Longing is all that lasts.

How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.

All that produces longing in the heart deprives it of its freedom.

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.

Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.

We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.

We must not stint Our necessary actions in the fear To cope malicious censurers, which ever, As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further Than vainly longing.

With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.

This longing to express and celebrate life is innate and quite beautiful.

.. now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me.

Tired of myself longing for what I have not

I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.

For me, the experience of being in other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.

Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us.

The Lady has always moved to the next town and you stumble on after Her.

My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.

A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals.

That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, To have no home in the present. And these are wishes: gentle dialogues Of the poor hours with eternity.

Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one.

I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.

I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost.

The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.

Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.