Longing Quotes - Page 34

• At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Heart, Men

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• Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the very start oriented toward expression, and terminates in a word proffered, it wants to speak; whereas mystical because it emanates from the deepest longing of the spirit bent on knowing, tends of itself toward silence and internal fruition. Poetic experience is busy with the created world and the enigmatic and innumerable relations of existents with one another, not with the Principle of Being.

  Jacques Maritain

  Creativity, Expression, Mystical Experiences

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

  Robert Creeley

  Next, Towns, Moved

  Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.200, Univ of California Press

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• All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.

  Peter Shaffer

  God, Mute, Made

  "Fictional character: Antonio Salieri". "Amadeus", 1984.

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• The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.

  Albert Einstein

  Appreciation, Teacher, Art

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• All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Expression, Wish, Desire

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• Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader's brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing. It's a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg's storytelling skills in American Morons.

  Aimee Bender

  Sadness, Skills, Brain

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• O would, beloved, that you lay
  Under the dock-leaves in the ground,
  While lights were paling one by one.

  William Butler Yeats

  Light, Docks, Beloved

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.59, Wordsworth Editions

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• Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn,
  Come clear of the nets of wrong and right;
  Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight,
  Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.

  William Butler Yeats

  Twilight, Heart, Sadness

  'An Irish Airman Foresees his Death'

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• I--love's skein upon the ground,
  My body in the tomb--
  Shall leap into the light lost
  In my mother's womb.

  William Butler Yeats

  Mother, Light, Body

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• O sweet everlasting Voices, be still;
  Go to the guards of the heavenly fold
  And bid them wander obeying your will,
  Flame under flame, till Time be no more.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Flames, Voice

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea!
  We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee;
  And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky,
  Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.

  William Butler Yeats

  Stars, Twilight, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Benefits, Action, Fishes

  William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Jay L. Halio (1999). “King Henry VIII, Or, All is True”, p.90, Oxford University Press

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• The feeling, "this can't be it", is a very powerful form of prayer. It's the agony of the separated self longing for reunion with wholeness. It's the call of your soul urging you to return to your own path and purpose. It's the force of evolution driving you home. Do not try to deny or override your divine discontent. Heed its call. Knowing "this can't be it" implies that somewhere inside you, you DO know what IS it.

  Alan Cohen

  Powerful, Prayer, Home

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• In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Garden, Shadow, Incompatibility

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1925). “The Trap”

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• Kids want acceptance from their peers, but in two different, opposing ways: They want to be like everyone else and they want to be different from everyone else. So the question is: How do you reconcile these opposing longings?

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Children, Kids, Acceptance

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• Out of the rhythm and sound of the sea that beat through the orchestra, something moved--pressing toward death with quiet insistent joy--the thread through the maze--the soul behind the toil and the crime and longing.

  Jeanette Lee

  Sea, Joy, Soul

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• Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Humility, Serenity, Veils

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• To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?

  Roger L'Estrange

  Men, Wish, Venture

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

  Joseph Hertz

  Powerful, Motherhood, Instinct

  Joseph Herman Hertz (1941). “Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah ʻim haftarot”

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• Women are certainly more happy in this than we men: their employments occupy a smaller portion of their thoughts, and the earnest longing of the heart, the beautiful inner life of the fancy, always commands the greater part.

  Friedrich Schleiermacher

  Beautiful, Work, Heart

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• You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction. And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival. But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Dream, Future, Past

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• Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.

  Nancy Etcoff

  Beauty, Dream, Imagination

  Nancy L. Etcoff (2000). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, Anchor

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• A religion addresses the longing in us to have that said from which we can go on to speak of next and next things rightly, in their immediate time - the telling of what came first and before done forever.

  Laura Riding

  Forever, Religion, Done

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• You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ignorance, Knowing, Opposites

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