Longing Quotes - Page 33

• Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.

  George Herbert

  Bees, Idle

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.330

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• How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!

  Mother Teresa

  Angel, Animal, Poverty

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• 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.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Ideas, Goodness, Vain

  Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903). “New Letters and Memorials”

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• Im so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well.

  Kimbra

  Way, Wells, Humans

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

  Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

  Desire, Longing For Death, Loses

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• Pain is a holy angel who shows us treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him men and women have become greater than through all the joys of the world. It must be so and I tell myself this in my present situation over and over again. The pain of suffering and of longing, which can often be felt even physically, must be there, and we cannot and need not talk it away. But it needs to be overcome every time, and thus there is an even holier angel than the one of pain; that is, the one of joy in God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Pain, Angel, Men

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• The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious and short-lived. A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Struggle, Eye, Night

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street.

  Daphne Gottlieb

  Beautiful, Girlfriend, Kissing

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• I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

  Kate Baldwin

  Adventure, Pioneers, Pioneer Spirit

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• All human eyes have longing in them.

  Ernesto Cardenal

  Eye, Humans, Human Eyes

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

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• Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Song, Heart, Waiting

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.174, Macmillan

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• There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Government, Quality, Earth

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• From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .

  David Nicholls

  Views, Desire, Useless

  David Nicholls (2014). “Us”, p.336, Hachette UK

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• My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Goal, Unanswered Questions, Hunger

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• Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Science, Feelings

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• Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.

  Aldous Huxley

  Taken, Eye, Feet

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays”

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• Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span;
  Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man;
  Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Men, Giving

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.431, Simon and Schuster

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• only an aching heart
  Conceives a changeless work of art.

  William Butler Yeats

  Art, Creation, Heart

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

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• I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore,
  Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more;Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be,
  Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!

  William Butler Yeats

  Flames, Sea, White

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.130, Penguin

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• I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Art, Powerful

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• .. . . would I were
  In Grantchester, in Grantchester!

  Rupert Brooke

  Nostalgia

  Rupert Brooke (2007). “1914 & Other Poems”, p.60, Jeremy Mills Publishing

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• The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.

  John Cheever

  Men, Records, Form

  John Cheever (1965). “The Wapshot chronicle”

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• ... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, "immortal longings.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Crazy, Humanity, Taste

  Elizabeth Bowen (1959). “Stories”

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• You must be a poet,
  a lady of evil luck
  desiring to be what you are not,
  longing to be
  what you can only visit.

  Anne Sexton

  Evil, Poetry, Luck

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• To die whole,
  riddled with nothing
  but desire for it,
  is like breakfast
  after love.

  Anne Sexton

  Desire, Satisfaction, Breakfast

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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