Longing Quotes - Page 3

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

  Gail Godwin

  Intense

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• Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

  Ramakrishna

  Vision, Dawn, Sun

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

  Khalil Gibran

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  The Prophet "On Children" (1923)

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• Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

  Xunzi

  Sacrifice, Feelings, Devotion

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• Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally.

  Jon Crosby

  Waiting, Want, Kind

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• I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing: when both have fallen in love but still haven't said anything. The border is to be on the way. It is the way that is the most important thing.

  Tove Jansson

  Beautiful, Summer, Twilight

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• Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.

  David Brainerd

  Desire, Way, Divine

  David Brainerd (1824). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians, from the Society in Scotland, for Propagating Christian Knowledge: Who Died at Northampton, in New-England, October 9, 1747, in the 30th Year of His Age”, p.291

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• Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Eye, Men, Office

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.25, Modern Library

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• Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Sadness, Men, Mind

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• A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Good Company, Instruction

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.292

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• We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Mediocrity, Association

  Charles Lamb, Edward Verrall Lucas, Mary Lamb (1971). “The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Letters, 1796-1820”

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• I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Men, Thinking, Sight

  Alfred de Vigny (1840). “Cinq Mars (Complete)”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.

  William Ames

  End Of The World, Ends, Should

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• Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.

  Eduard Shevardnadze

  Pyramids, One Day, Might

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• All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure.

  Theodore Roethke

  Vision, Lovers, Endure

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.163, Anchor

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• 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

  Lonely, Home, Heart

  Josiah Royce (2015). “The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures”, p.353, Courier Dover Publications

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• In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost.

  Guy Finley

  Spiritual, Important, Desire

  "Fear and the ‘Anti-Change Factor’" by Guy Finley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2012.

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• My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.

  Gina Barreca

  Looks, Body, Photoshop

  Gina Barreca (2009). “It's Not That I'm Bitter . . .: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World”, p.21, Macmillan

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• Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Desire, Literature, Used

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• My longing for truth was a single prayer.

  Edith Stein

  Prayer, Catholic, Longing For God

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• I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple - like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Beer, Simple, Would Be

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• That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Meditation, Three, Inward

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• People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

  Bodhidharma

  People, World, Deluded

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.5, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Desire, Christianity

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

  Judi Dench

  Past

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