Definition of Longing

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Definition of Longing
	Longing of Long An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration. Related Definitions: An, Appetite, Aspiration, Craving, Desire, Eager, Earnest, Long, Morbid, Of, Wish

Longing Quotations

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

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.
Kahlil Gibran

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.
Mohandas Gandhi

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

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

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

My longing for truth was a single prayer.
Edith Stein

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

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

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

Longing Translations

longing in Dutch is verlangend, smachtend
longing in Italian is ansioso
longing in Latin is cupido
longing in Norwegian is lengselsfull, lengsel
longing in Spanish is anhelo

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