Longing Quotes

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi

Heart, Daily, Words

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

Life, Children, Through

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

Eye, Begins, Whenever

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
Coco Chanel

Women, Men, Mother

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell

Life, Love, Knowledge

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George Eliot

Good, Beautiful, Give

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

Good, Book, Company

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Orison Swett Marden

Ability, Creator

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature, Truth, Minds

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, Prayers

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

Life, Human, Painful

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, Nothing, Another

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
Karl Rahner

God, Hope, Beautiful

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

Word, Seeking, Deluded

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

Life, Great, Hope

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?
Greta Garbo

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.
Xun Zi

Feelings, Concerned, Sacrifices

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

End, Believers, Hence

Happiness is the longing for repetition.
Milan Kundera

Happiness, Repetition

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

God, After, Sun

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Movies, Trying, Rather

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

Love, Respect, Him

My longing for truth was a single prayer.
Edith Stein

Truth, Single, Prayer

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
Tony Snow

Love, Music, Politics

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.
John le Carre

Often, Concern, Messages

'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

Nothing, Saying, Through

As I have got older, I have found myself making friends with the ease and swiftness that other people pick up fuzzballs on their jumpers. And I believe it is probably my lack of longing for 'The One' that makes me so popular.
Julie Burchill

Friends, Makes, Making

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
Anna Freud

Life, Call, Goes

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.
Polly Toynbee

Time, Death, Die

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
Richard Wagner

Full, Abyss, Inferior

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