Longing Quotes - Page 4

• There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

  Saul Bellow

  Who We Are, Life Is, Painful

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.216, Penguin

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• Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Future, Past, Action

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• But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs.

  Ibn al-Farid

  Tears, Should, Sigh

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• Women have always been the strong ones of the world.

  Coco Chanel

  Strong Women, Empowering, Empowerment

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• Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. Think of the times when you rose above your average level of performance and carried out an idea or a dream or a desire for which you had deeply longed. Hang these pictures on the walls of your mind and look at them as you travel the roadway of life.

  James Whistler

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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• So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.

  Mary Oliver

  Rivers, Imagination, Enjoy Life

  Mary Oliver (2008). “Red Bird: Poems”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• I want to go to there.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Desire, Phrases

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• Every human longs for peace and love.

  Hiawatha

  Love, Peace, Native American

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• We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes...

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Dream, Sweet, Home

  "The Rock That is Higher: Story as Truth". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1993.

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• Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Expectations, Balance, Pajamas

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.287, Faber & Faber

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• We fell silent and all joking ceased. We gazed mutely into each other's eyes and an intense longing for the fullest avowal of the truth forced us to a confession, requiring no words whatever, or the incommensurable misfortune that weighed upon us. With tears and sobs we sealed a vow to belong to each other alone.

  Frederic Chopin

  Love, Inspiring, Eye

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• And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a time when she'd felt a loneliness so deep that once, not so many years ago, having a cavity filled, the dentist's gentle turning of her chin with his soft fingers had felt to her like a tender kindness of almost excruciating depth, and she had swallowed with a groan of longing, tears springing to her eyes.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Kindness, Loneliness, Eye

  Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.224, Random House

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• Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand - an infinite ocean of calm, which nothing can disturb; Nature's own exceeding peace, which "passes understanding". That which we seek with passionate longing, here and there, upward and outward; we find at last within ourselves.

  Richard Maurice Bucke

  Pain, Ocean, Silence

  Richard Maurice Bucke (2012). “Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind”, p.329, Courier Corporation

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• Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heaven, Fruition, Endless

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being.

  Ron Pope

  Song, Sadness, Mean

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• I craved your warmth. I hugged myself, rubbing my fingers up and down. I guess people are like insects sometimes, drawn to heat, A kind of infra-red longing.

  Lucy Christopher

  People, Red, Heat

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• Between the dusk of a summer night
  And the dawn of a summer day,
  We caught at a mood as it passed in flight,
  And we bade it stoop and stay.
  And what with the dawn of night began
  With the dusk of day was done;
  For that is the way of woman and man,
  When a hazard has made them one.
  Arc upon arc, from shade to shine,
  The World went thundering free;
  And what was his errand but hers and mine -
  The lords of him, I and she?
  O, it's die we must, but it's live we can,
  And the marvel of earth and sun
  Is all for the joy of woman and man
  And the longing that makes them one.

  William Ernest Henley

  Summer, Night, Men

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

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• For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our loves and friendships possible, and so very unsatisfactory. The hunger is for...nothing less than perfect communion with the...one in whom all the fragments of our scattered existence come together...we must not stifle this longing. It is a holy dissatisfaction. Such dissatisfaction is not a sickness to be healed, but the seed of a promise to be fulfilled...The only death to fear is the death of settling for something less.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Perfect, Long, Promise

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• You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the soul. Its most dangerous aspect is that one is unaware of its coming. That is why you have to be careful. As soon as you notice the slightest sign of indifference, the moment you become aware of the loss of a certain seriousness, of longing, of enthusiasm and zest, take it as a warning. You should realize your soul suffers if you live superficially.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sleep, Loss, Zest

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.80, Ardent Media

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• If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Way, Mysterious

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 09, 2012.

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• loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough intelligence and sensitivity and patience to do that.

  Marilyn French

  Loneliness, Mean, People

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• Most people are blind to magic. They move thru a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives and there’s nothing they can do about it. They’re eaten alive by longing and they’re dead before they die.

  Lev Grossman

  Moving, People, Bored

  Lev Grossman (2009). “The Magicians: A Novel”, p.88, Penguin

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• Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

  Peter Høeg

  Expression, Numbers, Missing

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.131, Macmillan

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• Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

  Hermann Broch

  Believe, Reality, Men

  Hermann Broch (2011). “The Sleepwalkers”, p.468, Vintage

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• For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details of our world. Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination, our language, our song and dance, our sense of the divine.

  Janine Benyus

  Song, Nature, Our World

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