Longing Quotations

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

Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?

Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share.

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

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.

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

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

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

I think a big part of marriage is not going anywhere on those days you feel you really want to. It's like in the Barrier Islands. If you want to stay together, don't leave. I think just culturally - in the media, in movies, in books - we're trained to divorce when that first blush of sexual longing starts to fade. That's just where marriage starts.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

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

Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat.

It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.

I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.

The feeling of longing for home is born into us. That wonderful dream cannot become real without great faith - enough for the Holy Ghost to lead us to repentance, baptism, and the making and keeping of sacred covenants with God. This faith requires enduring bravely the trials of mortal life.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been.

Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as easily as a Havel or Mandela.

In the case of 'News Radio,' I loved that show. I loved the actors and the producers, but I was longing very much for something more to sink my teeth into me. I think it was an incredibly smart show, but I found myself on the peripheral of a lot of it.

Within ourselves, there are voices that provide us with all the answers that we need to heal our deepest wounds, to transcend our limitations, to overcome our obstacles or challenges, and to see where our soul is longing to go.

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.

How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.

When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.

I don't have any huge desire to show you all that I'm not tough and strong, that I'm all feminine and soft. That's not a huge longing that I have because I know who I am.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being?

Today we're just growing and consuming, and I think maybe there's a sadness in that. People are longing for a time when there was a black and white and good and bad.

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

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.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he left the U.S.S.R. They wring your soul.

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.

Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.

In the '90s, the radio was still alive with all different kinds of points of view, and I think that's why people are longing for that time. It was the first time that alternative music broke through to the mainstream.

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

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

Sometimes a storm in your life is what will blow you to the place you are longing to be.

Longing alone is singer to the lute.

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

as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves

Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

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

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.

The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.

She tapped into a longing for something more in American women. It resonated with our mothers and with us.

My feelings for you shame me into silence. The truth of this and your name will never be revealed. It is you who has made me realize the failure of my life. The thought of you fills me with longing and at the same time, a burning humiliation that produces scar tissue and dead brain cells. Your existence mocks me and I am unable to confront this. You have no idea of any of this. None of this is your fault. It is completely with me. It is you who makes me see what I really am. I am weak and out of touch with myself.

One who abandons all desires and becomes free from longing and the feeling of 'I' and 'my' attains peace.

newfound interest in science is a derivative of his longing to travel back in time and run a cohesive campaign.

I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry, the

'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.

If all the eighteen loads of vegetation became fruits, and the growing grass became sweet rice; if I were able to stop the sun and the moon in their orbits and hold them perfectly steady - even then, I would worship and adore You, and my longing to chant Your Praises would not decrease.

What we have been seeing these days is not quite as encouraging as what we used to believe that in the modern world it is nearly impossible to interact socially and culturally only with those who think alike. Longing for the comforting of sameness may appears providing some safety and security. It confines ourselves into divisions that blocks our minds. In the end, collectively we become unsafe and insecure.

Here's a friend that's been taken from our interaction, so there's a void there. And on his part, there's a real longing and desire - you can almost hear it - to be closer to his son and a safe body at the church.

Law is a mental hair shirt. He admits a great longing for financial independence from the routine of desk slavery.

I think there was a longing in both of them to do a film together,

Irvine is such a safe, stable, planned community, and I'm a person who has a lot of inner longing for drama and romance. So I think in some way the structure of Irvine made me more creative because I had these boundaries, and I thought outside them.

People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.

Maybe it has something to do with longing for ... a more articulate society than there is these days. That's part of what people find fascinating, that these people lived by their wits and their words.

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.

Those blessed with the karma of good actions praise the Lord. O Nanak, they make the Guru their spiritual teacher. In the fourth watch of the early morning hours, a longing arises in their higher consciousness. They are attuned to the river of life; the True Name is in their minds and on their lips.

We are in the world where the longing mountains are the most grounded.

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

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.

Longing on a large scale makes history.

Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual.

Never cut loose from your longings.

Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?

Desire and longing are the whips of God.

Initially, less appealing to me than the idea of a vampire that is drawn by some misgiving or drawn by some sense of longing that he can't quite satiate.

We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.

Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.

You can't do every movie - although I do a lot of them - and the thing I'm longing to do is... it's not that I think I'm funny... but I long to do a situation comedy.

When you lose a child in an accident as I did, it's final - you're not caught in this longing for him, to search for him, knowing he's out there some place.

Every Sri Lankan, and almost every visitor to Sri Lanka, carries a longing for the place in some small form - hiraeth, the Welsh call it - wherever they go and whatever their background. It binds them however much the war and politics might try to divide them.

The movie is in some uncharted waters, because it shows what it's like for two men to feel that kind of longing and passion for each other, and people aren't used to that. No one movie is going to turn things around, but they can be building blocks. That could be this movie's legacy.

Some people never say the words 'I love you'. It's not their style to be so bold. Some people never say those words: 'I love you' But, like a child, they're longing to be told.

As a brand new startup company, one of the things you have to do is go out and raise money and be a visionary. I came up with the basic ideas for the technology here, so I'm more of a technologist. And I really had a longing to get back on the engineering side.

Although in my life the level of loss has never reached the extremes it does in 'The Winter People,' I certainly can identify with being both a daughter longing for her mother and being a mother who is almost scared by the intensity of her love for her daughter.

It is time to set new coordinates for our lives and to come out from behind the barriers of our own nation, our own religion, our own race and culture and make a decisive effort for peace. God has been longing to see the human family reunited, and this is His time.

It's true that I have been longing for the pitter patter of little feet around the house, ... but, once again, the press has got it all wrong.

It's almost Twilight Zone y. There's an appeal to that longing for an imaginary pasta yearning for an innocence that was never so pure anyway. It's meant to be recognizably real, but it has to play as mythological as well. That's part of the balancing act.

It's special for Mats, he's been longing for that. He's won pretty much everything except a gold medal and a Stanley Cup. Hopefully, he can take care of the rest in the spring.

After wandering through many other homes and houses, I have returned to my own home, and I have found what I was longing for.

Their desperate craving for simplicity sure can create complications. And their pitiful longing for certainty sure can make things unsteady.

I'm very pleased that his joining my office will permit me to spend more direct time with the vice presidents and to do something I've been longing to do for a year or so - to get more direct contact with the students,

In our youths, many of us suspected that being tied down to a partner and family might constrain us. But after 40, even that landscape starts to shift. Many singletons turn inward and start longing for the things so many of us longed to be free of in our 20s.

I really wanna do a Spanish album. I have that Latin culture background. It's a part of me. I'm not the best Spanish speaker, but I have a longing to connect with that. I just think how supportive the Latin community has been, even during 'Idol.' I'd like to give back with something like that.

Church's new 'Spicy Chicken' campaign is a case in point. Taking first-hand insights from Church's multicultural customer base, we found that the kind of 'spicy' this segment was longing for was not an outright 'burn-your-mouth' hot fare. They were looking for something flavorful, with a kick.

There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.

Writing is a constant exercise in longing.

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God ...