Longing Quotes - Page 5

• It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living, I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

  Oriah Dreamer

  Life, Dream, Heart

  "The invitation". Book by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, 1999.

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• Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Past, Scrapbooking, Enough

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• I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that close and lasting friendships can give.

  Marlin K. Jensen

  Friendship, Thinking, Giving

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• The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sex, Pain, Lying

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• I want to know
  if you know
  how to melt into that fierce heat of living
  falling toward
  the center of your longing.

  David Whyte

  Fall, Want, Heat

  David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.60, Penguin

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• The soul, in its longing to grow, will push us toward crisis points, bringing about a situation that will force us to leave behind the old toys and the worn-out ways of operating. Our soul brings us these crises to remind us that we don’t have to remain stuck in the land of the hunters and the hunted. We are called to draw ourselves up to our full height and confidence, even when terrified at the prospect of the unknown.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Land, Soul, Hunters

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• Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!

  Paulo Coelho

  Freedom, Independence, Shepherds

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• It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all.

  Anders Petersen

  Photograph

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• Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.

  Georges Bataille

  Desire, Empty, Exuberance

  "On Nietzsche". Book by Georges Bataille, p. 27, 1945.

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• Creativity is the vulnerability to spiritual and physical sensation, and to experience, combined with and acting upon a certain level of skill, combined with the compulsion or longing or need or desire to give.

  Michael Ventura

  Spiritual, Creativity, Skills

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Nobody has seen the trekking birds take their way towards such warmer spheres as do not exist, or rivers break their course through rocks and plains to run into an ocean which is not to be found. For God does not create a longing or a hope without having a fulfilling reality ready for them. But our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

  Isak Dinesen

  Running, Ocean, Blessed

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard”, p.10, Vintage

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• There’s never a moment in all our lives, from the day we trusted Christ till the day we see Him, when God is not longing to bless us. At every moment, in every circumstance, God is doing us good. He never stops. It gives Him too much pleasure. God is not waiting to bless us after our troubles end. He is blessing us right now, in and through those troubles. At this exact moment, He is giving us what He thinks is good.

  Larry Crabb

  Thinking, Blessing, Giving

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• People are better inside in your head. When you're longing for them, they're perfect.

  Donal Ryan

  People, Perfect

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• Long hours
  trail in their purple
  and long years are lost
  in just this moment
  while our souls are near,
  our mouths separate.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Time, Years, Purple

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.254, New Directions Publishing

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• For the body at best
  Is a bundle of aches,
  Longing for rest;
  It cries when it wakes.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Body, Cry, Ache

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Development, Knowledge Is Power, Conviction

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.370, Princeton University Press

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• I have done what they expected of me. I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut. This is what I have anticipated eagerly for years. So why do I feel so unsatisfied? Everyone is merry. They haven't a care in the world. And perhaps that is it. How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much.

  Libba Bray

  Queens, Years, Done

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.519, Simon and Schuster

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• The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hope, Hurt, Regret

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

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• The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back.

  Leonard Cohen

  Art, Media, Entertainment

  Song: Death Of A Ladies' Man, Album: Death of a Ladies' Man, 1977

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• Why does the longing for love have to be so acute, like a desperate thirst? Is it because love is wanting to be saved and we can never really be saved? Maybe love is really born of our fears. Love is the heart’s desire for a painkiller; a tearful plea for a great big epidural. Yes that’s it: love is the only anesthesia that really works. And so people with broken hearts are really those who are just coming to, and if you’ve ever seen someone come out of general anesthesia, you know that it looks a lot like the beginnings of a broken heart.

  Jonathan Hull

  Heart, Love Is, People

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• The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory meant good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgment, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Mean, Acceptance

  "The Weight of Glory". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

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• And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued.

  Khalil Gibran

  Memories, Years, Yesterday

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love; the passionate search for truth other than our own. With longing; the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Eye, Heart, Fate

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• 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.

  Robert Southey

  Desire, World, Natural

  Robert Southey (1849). “The life and correspondence of Robert Southey. Ed. by C.C. Southey”, p.284

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• False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mistake, Heart, Break Through

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “Stories from Tagore”, p.81, Rabindranath Tagore

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